Word: phi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to the conclusion that they weren't kidding when they said this was tough. The profs seem to want us to go "all out" study. We're still trying to figure out how we got caught in this mess of Phi Botes and straight A boys, but we haven't gone so far as to question anyone...
Crawling back to his Canadian infantry outfit after a scouting mission in Italy. Captain Bob Chard blundered into a position held by Greek troops. A sentry challenged. Captain Chard answered in purest fraternity-house Greek: "Delta Upsilon; Phi Kappa Psi." The sentry promptly opened fire and threw a grenade. Chard is recovering in a base hospital...
Noonan stressed the fact that although Lowell House boasts of its Phi Beta Kappas, its members, a friendly group, are active in athletic and social affairs...
Graduated from Harvard in 1907 (a Phi Beta Kappa, he did four years' work in three, edited the Advocate, contributed to the Harvard Monthly, and published a volume of undergraduate verse), the 21-year-old Brooks stopped in New York to ask William Dean Howells how one should set about being a writer. ("He knew as well as I that there was no answer.") After a try at newspaper reporting, he took steerage passage to England...
Election of eight men to the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was announced today. Four Seniors and four Juniors have been elevated to membership in the national honorary society...