Word: phi
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...ulcer). Successor Hayes, who calls himself "deplorably obscure," is described by his banker peers as brilliant, is the first president to come from outside the big bank's ranks since it opened for business in 1914. Son of a Cornell University scholar, Hayes got his degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key at Yale ('30), spent a year at Harvard Business School, wound up his academic career as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford with a thesis on the U.S. Federal Reserve. He joined the (New York) City Bank Farmers Trust Co. as an economist, shifted to National City...
...Francis H. Burr Scholarship for the senior who combines the qualities of "character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability" possessed by Burr, football captain in 1908, was won by track captain Arthur G. Siler '56 of Winthrop House and Orinda, Calif. He is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and won a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford next year...
...Another Phi Beta Kappa member, E. Leo Slaggie, Jr., of Lowell House and Dayton, Ohio, received the Palfrey exhibition given annually to the most distinguished scholar in the Senior Class who also holds a stipendiary scholarship" in honor of John G. Palfrey, Class of 1815. Last year Slaggie was the winner of the Silver debating medal. He is active in the Band and the Mountaineering Club...
...descendant of early New England settlers, including Roger Williams, Chafee was born in Providence R.I. on December 7, 1885. He was raised there and attended the town's university. At Brown, which the left in 1907 carring a Phi Betta Kappa Key, a summa citation, and an A.B., Chafee's chief interests were writing and Latin translation. In fact, he considers his two greatest achievements to be drafting the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934 and translating the anonymous Latin Poem Pervigilium Veneris while at Brown. After a few years of working for his father's manufacturing firm, reading Blackstone...
...Innocent" though he may have been in college, Schlesinger was apparently not naive, for he avoided the "pink" organizations which snared so many other young liberals. "He always had his feet on the ground," one friend explained. Schlesinger did join the Signet and the Advocate, and Phi Beta Kappa elected him first marshal...