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...have a footnote explaining the derivation of cybernetics "from χνβερνńτης, Greek for 'steersman.' " I believe the spelling in Greek is κνβερνńτης, the first letter being a Kappa...
...proved it by graduating from the University of Missouri a Phi Beta Kappa, then tried the newspaper business for three years, on small Midwestern papers and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When the University of Missouri set up its new journalism school, Charlie Ross went back to teach, stayed at it for nine years before he went back to the P-D and a top-drawer job as head of its new Washington bureau...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa held its annual winter dinner and meeting last night in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Those members of the newly-elected Senior Sixteen who were present were formally inducted...
...graduate to persuade men that Harvard is a school worth attending, that financial and job problems can be solved ethically, that Harvard is still interested in others besides potential summas, and is willing to concede that education does not necessarily include winning a Phil Beta Kappa...
...school graduates who came to them for jobs did not seem to know either spelling or grammar. Dean Johnston decided that Denver graduates would be different, this year gave incoming students a special test. Last week he announced the results: half the class, including one Phi Beta Kappa, had flunked. Samples of examination answers...