Word: phi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight Radcliffe juniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa will be initiated at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 28, at Hilles. They are Judith L. Anderson, Wolbach, Bio-chemistry; Joan S. Friedman, Eliot, History and Literature; Judy Lieberman, 63 Garden Street, Physics; Jean A. Martin, Holmes, History...
...letter to Gerald D. Folland, First Marshal of the undergraduate Phi Beta Kappa Society, Neal Koblitz '69 said that the organization promoted "an unjustified attitude of superiority and condescension toward those not in the group...
...response to Koblitz' charges, Folland said that Phi Beta Kappa realized there were other ways to distinguish oneself besides academics, "but Phi Beta Kappa does not exist to recognize political activities...
Koblitz also criticized Phi Beta Kappa's method of election, calling "grades a ludicrous criterion of intellectual worth...
...Under Phi Beta Kappa's present election system, the society considers students with the top 16 grade point averages in both the junior and senior classes...