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...River in Showboat, then a popular villain in the '50s for his espousal of left-wing causes-is becoming respectable again. Now 72 and ailing, he has had a student center named after him by Rutgers University, where he played All-America football and earned a Phi Beta Kappa key as a member of the class...
Entering Cornell University in 1947, Irving plunged into books, freshman crew and Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, of which he was elected president in his senior year. Initially he wanted to be an artist. Then he read Ernest Hemingway, whose style in life and prose had a profound effect upon him. "Erom that point on," says a classmate, "he wanted to be a writer." He took creative-writing courses at Cornell, stayed on for a year after graduation on a creative-writing fellowship...
Seventy per cent of the Ed School's chapter of Phi Delta Kappa supported the withdrawal decision after a biennial meeting of the fraternity's national council refused to recognize women as members. Harvard and several other graduate schools have been accepting female members on a local basis despite national council rulings...
...When we send in (women's) names, the national organization sends back letters saying the women are not members in good standing." LeBaron Moseby, president of the Ed School's chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, said yesterday. Women accepted to the Harvard chapter are not required to pay full dues since they do not receive the same services, he added...
...facto policy of admitting women to local Phi Delta Kappa chapters is being followed at several other graduate schools--including Columbia, Stanford and New York...