Word: teem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire undergraduate membership led by an executive board, manned this year by John M. Teem '50, First Marshal, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, Secretary, and Antonic G. Haas '44, Second Marshal and graduate members including Dean Bender '27 and Assistant Dean Judson T. Shaplin '42 begin screening the elite 12 at the end of their fifth term...
...report that they have known their tutees about as long as it takes to scribble a signature on a study card. Men who think they have a chance to make Phi Beta Kappa "would be wise to get to know their tutors as well as possible," First Marshal Teem suggests...
...duration of World War II, Phi Beta Kappa suspended all its functions except electing new members. It remained virtually dormant since then until this year when under the leadership of Teem, Gootenberg, and Haas the membership decided Phi Beta Kappa could do more at Harvard College than twirlkeys on gold watch chains...
...Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships provide for travel rather than formal study. They have been won by John M. Teem '50 of Springfield, Missouri and David G. Hughes '47 of Westport, Connecticut...
George Meredith was the Evelyn Waugh of the Victorians. He was wondrously clever, with a wit that snapped and crackled and never faltered through more than 20 novels. "His pages so teem with fine sayings and magniloquent epigrams, gorgeous images, and fantastic locutions," said Critic W. E. Henley, that "the mind would welcome a little dullness as a glad relief." Had he had the virtue of simplicity, in addition to his other talents, he might have been to English fiction what Shakespeare is to its poetry and drama...