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...Outstanding academic achievement is necessary in order to be selected for membership into Phi Beta Kappa, but the standards differ between the three elected groups...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Accepts 24 | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

Twenty-four juniors were accepted last week into the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest undergraduate honors society in the United States...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Accepts 24 | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...selection process for Phi Beta Kappa members includes three different elections for each class—one in the spring of the junior year, one in the fall of senior year, and a final one right before graduation. The first round elects 24 juniors—dubbed the “Junior 24”—who are then joined by 48 seniors in the fall...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Accepts 24 | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Try Lying to This Guy | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WAYS TO TELL THAT YOU SIGNED UP FOR THE WRONG CLASS | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

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