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Twenty-four juniors were accepted last week into the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest undergraduate honors society in the United States...
...hardworking, straight, decent people." His father, a doorman on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reportedly arrived early for every shift and rarely took vacations. Fitzgerald himself worked as a janitor during high school and as a doorman in the summers while attending Amherst College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. He then received a law degree from Harvard...
...professor announces his intention to wage a private war against grade inflation. 6) On Monday morning, your professor announces his intention to wage a private war against your GPA. 7) As you walk into section, you hear “Oh my God, it’s like a Phi Beta Kappa reunion in here!” 8) Your TF reveals that 60% of your final grade depends on your ability to actually feed the world, and only 40% is based on your ability to feed yourself. 9) Contrary to your expectations, your class on dinosaurs does not include...
Linnea N. Meyer ’07, one of this fall’s Phi Beta Kappa inductees, offered words of hope yesterday for the first-years longing to be accepted into the prestigious national honor society. “My very first, and worst, grade at Harvard was a C-minus in a rhetoric course freshman year,” said Meyer, a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. “It was the lowest grade I’d ever gotten in my whole life, but it really motivated me.” Meyer was among...
Badaracco was a 2005 graduate of Northwestern University and attended Brookline High School. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Northwestern, where she majored in International Relations and minored in Spanish, as well as participated in athletics such as field hockey and track, her father wrote in an e-mail...