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Immelt played offensive tackle for the football team at Dartmouth College. In New Hampshire, he was also president of the now-abolished fraternity, Phi Delta Alpha, vice president of the interfraternity council, and a member of the secret society “Dragon...
Getting the job was a long shot, even for a summa-candidate, Phi Beta Kappa economics concentrator from Harvard. One-hundred twenty applicants competed for two spots...
...have had exactly the same meal. What we have shared instead is the discovery that you can be anything that you can imagine. That is--you can be anything, but you cannot be everything. Perhaps you can play for HRO and the Water Polo team, be marshal of Phi Beta Kappa and consul of Sigma Chi, as well as love the Garden State. But even the most conscientious overachiever is hard-pressed to do it all at the same exacting level of type-A perfectionism for which we Harvard students are notorious...
...years later, the self-described “terrible student” has been nominated for an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa to commend his impressive career as a journalist, including his coverage of the early years of the Vietnam War for the New York Times and his 19 subsequent books...
...work has been well-received not merely by Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa society. Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his incisive reporting on Vietnam, and his 1972 book “The Best and the Brightest” has since been deemed the definitive account of why and how the U.S. intervened in Vietnam...