Word: phi
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...native of Los Angeles, Gross has a Phi Beta Kappa key, a Harvard doctorate and a quick mind of the math-and-music kind. His math won him honors at U.C.L.A. ('40), got him a teaching job at Oregon State College before he became a wartime Army captain. His music made him an accomplished violinist, and for years a member of symphony orchestras in Southern California. He was an upstate New York school superintendent when Pittsburgh found...
Except for four years as chairman of Cornell's English department, DeVane has been at Yale ever since he arrived as an undergraduate from South Carolina. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1920, was appointed assistant professor when he received his Ph.D. in 1926, and returned from Cornell in 1938 as Emily Sanford professor of English literature as well as dean of Yale College. A first-rate scholar of Browning and Tennyson, the new dean became equally expert on faculty and curriculum, quietly carved out the reports and studies that have served as the basis for undergraduate education...
...junior Senator from Massachusetts. A new copy editor on the Lincoln, Neb.. Journal, she got the chance to chauffeur Kennedy, who had flown in to make a speech, back to the airport. Listening to her journalistic dreams (she studied journalism at the University of Nebraska, where she made Phi Beta Kappa), the Senator idly promised to abet them if she ever came to Washington. Marianne promptly went there, and a surprised Kennedy wangled her a post as woman's editor of a suburban daily in the capital's Virginia environs...
...annual report, Edwin N. Griswold, dean of the Harvard Law School, quoted from the Phi Beta Kappa oration given June 11 by Gerard Piel. Piel's address was headlined in papers throughout the nation the next day, and is one of the most important speeches delivered at Harvard Commencements. Following is an expanded version of the CRIMSON's June 12 news coverage...
Gerard Piel '37 somberly warned in Phi Beta Kappa oration that the United States has "come to the fork in the road" and must choose the path of disarmament, now that expenditure of arms can no longer provide an adequate stimulus to the economy...