Word: phi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighty seniors were elected to the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday and six men received honorary memberships for their "achievements in the fields of art, letters, science, and religion...
...morning, the Chapter heard poet John Holmes of Tufts University read his Phi Beta Kappa Poem, "The 11th Commandment," and Chiang Yee of Columbia University deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Oration at the annual Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre...
Slugs, Slugs, Slugs. At first Leverone felt like a pullet plunging into a weasel den. A Dartmouth graduate ('06, Phi Beta Kappa) and a successful real-estate operator who was also secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, he found a business controlled by sharpers and racketeers; chewing-gum sticks were cut in half, sold for a penny apiece; undersized chocolate bars cost a nickel; peanuts costing 8? per Ib. dribbled out at the rate of six per penny. And when the machines ran out of merchandise, they returned nothing but a hollow, insulting clank. Leverone hired an engineer...
Today the alumni will join students at the annual Phi Beta Kappa Parade and Exercises in Sanders Theatre at 10:45 a.m. Poet John Holmes and Chaing Yee, Chinese author and painter, will be the main speakers...
Other possibilities are: C. Douglas Dillon '31, First Marshal of his 25th year class and Ambassador to France; architect Frank Lloyd Wright; author Chiang Yee, who will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa address; Barnaby C. Keeney, new president of Brown; Henry Ford II; Edward R. Murrow; attorney Joseph N. Welch; Sinclair Weeks '14 will also be in town; retired military figure Mathew W. Ridgway; and around Harvard retiring Louis C. Bierweiler deserves consideration...