Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston dentist, Cooley starred in basketball and made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Texas. After getting his M.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University, he stayed on as an intern and resident at the Hopkins' University Hospitals and served as what he calls "a very junior assistant" to the great surgeon Alfred Blalock, who was soon to perform the world's first blue-baby operations. That association determined Cooley's future course, and he has been a heart man ever since...
Fresh out of Swarthmore, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa and a terror on the badminton court, Heywood Hale Broun had visions of being "the lovable English professor, the fascinating don, the teacher whose lectures are better than a show...
...eight Radcliffe juniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa will be initiated at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 28, at Hilles. They are Judith L. Anderson, Wolbach, Bio-chemistry; Joan S. Friedman, Eliot, History and Literature; Judy Lieberman, 63 Garden Street, Physics; Jean A. Martin, Holmes, History...
Koblitz also criticized Phi Beta Kappa's method of election, calling "grades a ludicrous criterion of intellectual worth...
Under Phi Beta Kappa's present election system, the society considers students with the top 16 grade point averages in both the junior and senior classes...