Word: phi
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There are perhaps more "students" in Eliot than in any other house. But there are also probably more "hackers" in this house than elsewhere. Eliot tied with its perennial roval, Lowell House, for the top number of senior Phi Beta Kappas this year. Eliot House alone produced almost one tenth of all Rhodes Scholars in the nation last year. At the other extreme, however, there are many men who study hardly over--spending their time partying, drinking, card playing, talking, and at clubs and organizations. In between, of course, there is a large group of both gentlemen scholars and plodders...
Relatively few Kirkland men write for the Advocate or the Lampoon, or own club ties. But a large number of its 357 members are active in WHRB, the Crimson Key, The Crimson, the Yearbook, the Harvard Dramatic Club, and the Band. Kirkland had two representatives on Phi Beta Kappa's Senior Sixteen list, and two second-place winners in the Boylston Oratory competition...
...scholarly house, with a good percentage of men on Dean's List, but this scholarly bent manifests itself more in the organizations than in Phi Beta Kappa listings. Fully two-thirds of the House members belong to one or more of the House organizations, most of which are at least semi-intellectual...
Winthrop's share of Phi Betas is small and so is her list of group six students. She has men on every major team and stays in the middle of Straus competition. Even the seven Puritan seniors elected to this year's 12-man Class Committee represent a cross section...
...candidate for honors in biochemical sciences, she is vice-president of Radcliffe Choral Society, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa's Junior Six and Pre-Medical Society. She will enter Harvard Medical School next fall...