Word: phi
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Early in life Mortimer displayed his urge to excel. He got top marks in school, became captain of his high school swimming team. When he went to the University of Virginia, he knew what he wanted. "I said to myself I wanted to be Phi Beta Kappa," he recalls. A lawyer who was a fellow student of Caplin's remembers how hard he ran: "Almost from the first day, we knew Morty would be first in the class. Nobody was willing, or had the energy, to compete with...
...Seven-Exemption Man. Besides being a campus hero and making Phi Beta Kappa. Caplin fulfilled predictions by finishing first in his law school class (average: 94.5). In addition, he won the Raven Award as an outstanding man in his class. As a youthful lawyer, Caplin found his way to the Wall Street firm of Paul. Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1950, before getting a doctor-of-laws degree as a night student at New York University, he went back to the University of Virginia to teach. By the time President Kennedy tapped him to be the nation's chief...
...also been bitten by another bug. In 1935, after earning a Phi Beta Kappa key and an M.A. in psychology at St. Louis' Washington University, he made a beeline for the newsroom of the St. Louis Star-Times, which was even then mortally ill (it died in 1951). "I picked the Star-Times because it was the lowest-paying place and seemed most likely to hire a kid," says Havemann. He was taken on as a $15-a-week baseball and football writer, two sports that he knew nothing about. Shifted to rewrite man, Havemann ground...
Almost 250 graduates are now enrolled in the M.A.T. program, most of whom are honors candidates. In the Class of 1961 one out of five was a member of Phi Beta Kappa...
...question is asked in the Phi Beta Kappa magazine American Scholar by Kenneth Keniston. a Rhodes scholar and Harvard junior fellow, whose brilliant reconnoitering of psychology, philosophy and political science at Harvard led him to focus on youth ''alienation." Now a professor of psychology at Yale Medical School. Keniston as a result has become a top scholar of the oddly American dilemmas of growing...