Word: phi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Made Phi Beta Kappa...
Result: the judges found that the Progressive students got slightly better marks from their professors (2.52 v. 2.48); won more academic honors (Phi Beta Kappa, et al.); were more precise and systematic in their thinking, more resourceful in meeting practical problems; read more books; did more dancing; went to more concerts; took a keener interest in world affairs; went out for more extracurricular activities; were elected to more student offices. Clinching fact: graduates of the six most progressive schools had the best record, the biggest margin of superiority over their fellows...
Last December, the Ohio State chapter of Phi Delta Kappa rebelled when it took the colloquial interpretation of the "whiteman" clause in the constitution, and inducted as members a Chinese and a Negro. Forthwith the chapter was notified that it would be banned from the society next May unless it rescinded the membership of these two men, which Ohio State has refused...
...inviting a Negro speaker to its meeting next Thursday the Harvard chapter of Phi Delta Kappa hopes to express its own sentiments on this subject and bring pressure on the executive board to change the constitutional race ruling, without taking action which could result in suspension from the University...
According to members of the Harvard unit, it is opposed to the democratic concept of education for an organization such as Phi Delta Kappa to restrict its membership to any one race. PDK is sufficiently influential in some parts of the country to control professorial appointments, and in many cases it is impossible for non-members of the society to acquire teaching positions...