Word: phi
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After Washington's Dunbar High School, an excellent though then segregated institution known for the number of students that it sent to Ivy League colleges, Brooke attended Howard University, where he cut an enviable swath with the coeds and was president of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's oldest Negro social fraternity. Because of an early inclination toward medicine, he majored in chemistry and zoology, graduating in 1941. On Pearl Harbor day, he was called into the Army as an R.O.T.C.-trained second lieutenant, was assigned to the all-Negro 366th Combat Infantry Regiment. He saw combat action in Italy...
...shocked when she arrives at Wellesley. Her favorite relationships have probably been those with boys and she is used to governing her behavior by the expected male reaction. When she gets to Wellesley, she is knocked off base. A senior who is a house president and a junior Phi Beta Kappa describes the experience: "I liked girls, but I was always more comfortable around boys. It was hard to get used to making friends with girls. Probably most girls don't know what it's like until they get here. There's such an artificial atmosphere, but you get used...
...Bundy panel was set up under similar circumstances. The then-assistant to the President for National Security Affairs had been informed that critics planned to protest his Phi Beta Kappa Oration. He agreed to a public meeting with them. The panel that resulted was comprised of three professors and three students; Dunlop could do worse than follow that example...
Author Crittenden, 29, is a Phi Beta Kappa from Kansas University and has written short stories for The New Yorker and the Atlantic. His literary ancestors range from Nathanael West to Terry Southern to Nichols and May, but he has his own deadpan wit and a wildly antic...
...Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College, Clark attended Harvard Law School...