Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olum's statement is as follows: "There has been an awareness in Phi Beta Kappa recently that the tradition of intellectual freedom of the American university is not something to be taken for granted by is something to be fought...
...double sentiment which has moved Phi Beta Kappa to take this action is greatly to be praised. But the concrete turn which this sentiment has taken is rather questionable. Until a case of real suppression arises at Harvard, the Committee for Academic Freedom would serve no function but to cast aspersion upon Harvard's present-day tolerance in the eyes of the nation's liberal press. This is not a very worthwhile stake on which to gamble the position of aloof grandeur which PBK now occupies in the eyes of Harvard students...
...Senior Sixteen were taken into Phi Beta Kappa at the meeting. Eight members are chosen by the Society during their Junior Year, 16 during the first part of their Senior year, and 65 at Commencement...
...date the committee has been largely concerned with selecting its engraver, printer, and photographer, all of whom have been determined. Pictures of the class have been taken by the Sargeant Studio in all the Houses and in Dudley; biography blanks for all Seniors will be sent out shortly after Christmas vacation...
...time several departments were left under-staffed in vitally important fields, and the situation can be corrected only by rehiring several of these men--of proven brilliance--where they are needed. The new policies provide the instruments by which this therapy can be accomplished, for the men can be taken on as additional associate professors...