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Forty-eight members of the class of 2002 were elected this week to the Massachusetts chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the prestigious academic society...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Forty-Eight Added to Phi Beta Kappa | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

Alpha Iota, the Massachusetts chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, elects three installments of Harvard students through faculty committees for social sciences, humanities and natural sciences...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Forty-Eight Added to Phi Beta Kappa | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...difficult at all for Harvard students to distinguish themselves academically. No matter how much grade inflation there is, for example, the number of summa cum laude graduates remains capped at approximately 5 percent of the class. No matter how much grades inflate, the number of Junior Phi Beta Kappa inductees remains 24. Even more telling, and something that surprises most people when they hear of it, is that last year graduating senior Kevin S. Schwartz ’01 (now a Marshall Scholar) was the first undergraduate in eight years to graduate with a perfect 15.0 grade point average...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, | Title: A Red Herring? | 11/27/2001 | See Source »

Jonathan S. White, who is president of the historically black Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Rho Nu chapter at MIT, urged organization leaders to work to keep members constantly involved...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston Black Students Network Relaunched | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...influence on and journalistic partner to her husband, columnist and Washington correspondent James Reston; together they produced the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard from 1968 to 1988. They met in college on a double date, for which Sally had been matched with James' fraternity brother. "She was a Phi Beta Kappa," James Reston later recalled. "I was a C-minus student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 8, 2001 | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

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