Word: phi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr., 44, was named National Broadcasting Co.'s president. A Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth, he became a boy wonder in advertising, was named advertising manager for American Tobacco Co. at 29. After two years' service in the Navy, he became a Young & Rubicam vice president at 40, joined NBC in 1949 as head of television. Sometimes called NBC's "thinker-in-chief," Pat Weaver thought up such programs as Your Show of Shows, Today. Already a legend in a legendary trade, Weaver talks in nonstop sentences, studs them with such phrases...
Goodman is a past president of the Harvard Liberal Union, and a founder of the Athenaeum, currently on its Governing Board. In addition, he plays for the varsity tennis team and is a member of the "senior 16" elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
...that nation-wide fraternities were losing their grip on College chapters. The local groups wanted more independence; the national organization, more control. Throughout the 1890s' clubs were detaching themselves from the fraternity system. Porcellian and A.D., which had broken off from the Harvard chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, were joined by other final clubs. Another fraternity effort to refound Alpha Delta Phi terminated in the Phli and finally the Fly club...
...thirties were also an era of merger and expansion. For example, the Phoenix and the Sigma Kappa, this latter a hold over from the fraternity years, combined and went final. And the clubhouse of Spee, a group which 80 years before had been the Harvard chapter of Zeta Phi, was typical of the building and decorating of the 1930s...
...while clubs like Stylus, K.G.X., and Alpha Phi Sigman dropped from the College roster, the more established clubs retrenched. With the beginning of the war and the occupation of the College by the navy, however, additional read-justment was necessary. The Hasty Pudding was converted to an Officer's Club, the Signet, Harvard's undergraduate literary society, turned its building over to the Red Cross. Again, it was only the active and loose-fisted alumni that pulled many of the final clubs through the three-year occupation by the military. With the end of the war and the upsurge...