Word: phi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland, he returned to Boston and has been active in research in thyroid disease since 1931. He has contributed numerous scientific articles in endocrinology and is a member of the Society for Clinical investigation and the Federation of Experimental and Biological Societies. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He has been on the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital and was in charge of the Thyroid Clinic until his entry into the Naval service...
Writing in the June issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Alfred Sherwood Romer, Agassiz Professor of Zoology and director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, strongly defended the action of Amherst College's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in admitting a Negro to their society...
What Bell Wrought. At 73, Editor Grosvenor is a frail-looking, energetic man with a neat white mustache, a Phi Beta Kappa key and the manner of a Boston Brahmin. Grosvenor was born (with a twin brother now dead) in Constantinople, where his father was a professor at Robert College. Fittingly enough, from his nursery window the future geographer could see two continents...
...matter what his courses-on mortgages, notes and bills, evidence or crime-he gave them all with the same intensity. Phi Beta Kappas have flunked them and law-review editors have gotten Ds. Once he gave such a stiff examination that 31 out of his 35 students failed it. Later, the students gave him a dinner and presented him with a medal. On it was etched the motto of Verdun: Ils ne passeront pas (They shall not pass...
...third Varsity heavies and the first 150's will carry the Crimson honors in the big race of the day, the Steward's Cup. They are pitted against the first Union Boatclub eight, manned by an intercollegiate alumni group including such Harvard notables as All-American, Phi Beta Kapa guard Chub Peabody, and against the LaSalle College Varsity heavies...