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...firsthand experience with white racism. He went to elementary school in midtown Manhattan, to high school in suburban White Plains and to college at Middlebury in Vermont, where he was the only black in his class--and, more tellingly, the first one in the local chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. His frat brothers liked him so much that they defied the whites-only charter to pledge him. As a newly commissioned Army second lieutenant en route to a post in Virginia, he was so naive about what it could mean to be black in America that when...
...find inspiration for this first column, I reread our very own Ralph Waldo Emerson on the duties of the "American Scholar." He delivered an address by that name for the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony here at Harvard in 1837. According to Emerson, the responsibility of the academic is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances...
Wilson has also recently won two prizes for his book Journey to the Ants cowritten with Berk Holldobler. The book won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize in Science...
...ecstatic. It's definitely an honor because I know a lot of my classmates elected Phi Beta Kappa last year and it's been quite an honor to be associated with them," said Peter S. Cahn '96, who is also a Senior Class Marshall...
...earth shaking event," said Manjul Bhargava '96. "We feel like we're paying $40 for the honor," he said, referring to the charge that comes with joining Phi Beta Kappa...