Word: phi
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...Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society's selection of new junior and senior members will not be affected by academic inflation, L. Fred Jewett '57, graduate secretary of the society's Harvard chapter, said yesterday...
...epidemic of high grades at colleges across the country has forced some chapters to add extra criteria to their evaluation procedures. Carl Billman '35, secretary of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, said in an interview last week that the increase in Phi Beta Kappa level scores reflected not an increase in the numbers of those qualified for the academic society, but the tendency of some teachers opposed to grading to give A's to everyone...
According to Dean Whitlock there has been a steady "inflation" of grades at Harvard over the years, increasing the number of students above the cut-off for Phi Beta Kappa, which is an academic average of 13.00, or between B-plus and A-minus...
...Phi Beta Kappa seniors customarily elect in April twelve out of the junior class's twenty-four top students. The next December this group elects a senior twenty-four, chosen from among the fifty leading students in the class...
...best known among undergraduates as co-lecturer (with David Perkins) in a perennially over-subscribed course in "The Modern Period" of English and American literature, and maintained smaller followings with his courses "The 19th Century Novel" and "The Novel Since World War II." One of Kiely's Phi Gamma Delta brothers at Amherst in the early 50s remembers him from then with affection, as "everybody's favorite nice-guy;" those who know him now seem to hold the same kind of regard...