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Gliding through Stanford University with distinguished grades which won him a Phi Beta Kappa key, Bok played freshman basketball, joined the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, represented his junior class on the student council, and was sure only that he wanted to achieve something outside the family publishing business. He chose law because it gave him broad options. After his first year at Harvard Law School, he took a summer tour of India, striking up friendships with local people in Y.M.C.A.s by giving impromptu jazz clarinet concerts. In an interview with TIME Education Correspondent Gregory H. Wierzynski last week, he recalled...
...following 24 members of the class of 1971 were elected last week to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa: Paul B. Armstrong of Eliot House and Allentown, Pa.; Stephen H. Bandeian of Lowell House and Holyoke; Russell L. Barsh of Leverett House and New York; Lawrence R. Barusch of Eliot House and Richmond, Calif.; Steven M. Berzin of Leverett House and Paris, France...
...Hearing. Until now, crusading was hardly White's style. He was noted more for prudence and hesitancy. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago, White, 61, was dean of Kent's College of Education for twelve years before becoming president in 1963. At first he tried to inform Ohioans about the new realities of youthful alienation and black militancy. But the town of Kent (pop. 30,000) grew increasingly impatient with protests. White leaned toward a harder line...
...students who withdrew, 48.2 per cent eventually graduated from Harvard, with 2.8 per cent being elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
Undaunted by current fads (his hair is short, his ties 1960 width), Lyman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, a Harvard Ph.D. and an expert on contemporary British history. As provost for 31 years, he increased the admission of minority students and spearheaded curriculum reforms. Skilled in the vanishing art of dialogue, he delivered frequent briefings over the campus radio last spring and has now scheduled a weekly press conference. He seeks reform, but intends to fight disruption. "We have to preserve order," he said last week, "because if we do not, someone else who does not understand...