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Your issue of TIME, Feb. 28 puzzles me. You imply that Franklin D. Roosevelt did not win his Phi Beta Kappa key through scholarship. Can it be that nowadays Presidents are given this honor without earning it? My understanding is that Phi Beta Kappa is about the only organization that one cannot "crash in" without true scholarship...
Franklin Roosevelt did not "win his Phi Beta Kappa key through scholarship." Twice awarded him honoris causa, it was given by both Hobart College chapter and the Harvard College chapter in 1929. Other famed honorary Phi Beta Kappas: John Marshall. Washington Irving, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lorado Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Glenn Frank. In the past three years Phi Beta Kappa has awarded no honorary memberships...
Equalling his best 220 free-style time of 2:11.2 for the third race this year, Willie Kendall surged out in front of Yale Captain Johnny Macionis to win by a substantial margin. The Eli star never really challenged for the lead. Jim Curwen turned in 2:17.7 for a last minute triumph for third place over Captain Jimmy Simpson of Princeton...
Best match of the day was the hot 175-pound tussle out of which Ed Babcox emerged victor over Ben Ferris to give the Rabbits their only win in the finals...
John Daniels of Lowell House defeated Auffmordt of Eliot in straight bouts to win the House epee championship in the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday. Lowell led with three wins, Eliot came next with two, and Kirkland followed with...