Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betu Kappa elected eight new Juniors to membership Monday. The Harvard chapter of the national honor society has been doing this for IGS consecutive years longer than any other chapter in any other college...
High level scholastic achievement is prerequisite to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, but it takes more than ability to grind out A's like an automatic bottling machine to get the privilege of wearing a Phi Beta Kappa...
Three considerations go into electing an undergraduate to Phi Beta Kappa. First, he must have a high scholastic standing. Second, his intellectual accomplishments and general promise are evaluated by the candidate's tutor. Third, his overall achievement in his undergraduate days in the line of extra-curricular activities as well as in the purely academic field is weighed by a committee composed of faculty members, graduate, and undergraduate Phi Beta Kappas...
...three, an excellent scholastic record bears the most weight, since Phi Beta Kappa is first and foremost "recognition of intellectual capacities well employed, especially in the acquiring of an education in the liberal arts and sciences." A student has to be among the top 12 academically, in his class before Phi Beta Kappa will even deign to consider him for election in the Junior year...
Embarrassingly often tutors have had to 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...