Word: phi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John E. Wideman. 21. the son of a Pittsburgh waiter, is a senior majoring in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Wideman won the campus creative-writing prize, last month got his Phi Beta Kappa key. this year captained Penn's undefeated basketball team. Last week, hours after hurdling the Rhodes selection committee. Captain Wideman led Penn to victory over Vanderbilt topped his team's scoring with 18 points. His Oxford agenda: language and literature in order to teach college English...
...Waltham, Mass. Now it needs a war chest to lure top scholars, notably in its weak departments of economics, philosophy, comparative languages. The library of 300,000 volumes needs strengthening, as does research in humanities. The new grant, says President Abram Sachar. "does for our economic stability what Phi Beta Kappa accreditation did for our academic stature...
...grades of the undergraduate wives did not vary significantly from their classmates', but an unusually large number of them made Phi Beta Kappa...
Keppel is a member in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Century Association, as well as Phi Beta Kappa. He served as assistant Dean of the College from 1939 until 1941, before entering the armed services. He has held his present position with the School of Education since...
...years at Chapel Hill, Sailor McKenna sped through 40 courses in science, literature and anthropology, made straight A's and Phi Beta Kappa. He stayed on after graduation in 1956, married a university librarian ("for my complete set of Wordsworth.'' she murmurs), and toiled at a first novel about the 1925 revolution in China. The book, called The Sand Pebbles, has just become the $10,000 Harper Prize novel of 1962, is a Book-of-the-Month choice for January, and has been bought by Hollywood for a minimum...