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Public radio humorist Garrison Keillor delivered a witty, self-effacing oration at Phi Beta Kappa’s literary exercises yesterday, bringing folksy humor to the 211th annual ceremony honoring Harvard’s inductees into the country’s oldest undergraduate honors society...
Keillor, who comes from Anoka, Minn., was an unusual choice to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration, which is usually a serious speech...
Poet Lucie Brock-Broido, an associate professor at Columbia, marked her third Phi Beta Kappa honor yesterday when she read her poem, “Interrogation.” Inducted in Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, she later taught poetry at Harvard for five years—during which she received the society’s teaching prize...
Keillor and Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew G. Faust, who has won the Parkman Prize for history writing and has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, were both given honorary Phi Beta Kappa membership yesterday...
...Going from high school to college, you are forced to specialize and Phi Beta Kappa rewards those who hang on to what’s really good about high school—the ability to go in one day from a math class to a chemistry class to an English class,” Edwards said...