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Cater, former Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, is secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Student Council and the Liberal Union, and was chosen as Harvard delegate on May 24 after a University-wide competition...
Ivory Tower. In 1922 Herbert Matthews, a bookish youth with a new Phi Beta Kappa key (Columbia University), answered a blind want ad in the New York Times for a secretary. The advertiser turned out to be the Times itself. After three years in the business office, he switched to the news department. A reluctant journalist, who still has a tendency to be ponderous and pontifical, he spent much of the next ten years longing to get back to his books (Dante, medieval history). Even when he became second man in the Times's Paris bureau, he writes ruefully...
...real leaders. Nor does escapism befit those who prepare for leadership. That is why students now seeking to prepare for a part in world affairs, greater in number than ever before, still look hopefully to the future. That is why they scornfully deny the charge of the Phi Beta Kappa speaker at Sanders Theatre yesterday that "in war our young manhood and womanhood was not afraid of dying, but strangely now it shrinks from living," yet echo enthusiastically his message: "There is yet time for valour...
With the announcement yesterday that W. H. Auden, the English bard, will be the Poet at the Phi Beta Kappa commencement exercises, while Byron Price, well-known journalist, will be the Orator, plans for the first post-war commencement began to take on the promised air of pre-war dignity...
...Beta Kappa exercises will be held on the morning of June 3, and will open the four-day commencement program for the graduation of 263 students...