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When senior year came last autumn his world outdid itself to honor him. The faculty which had already made him a Senior Fellow, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key. Sportswriters named him on All-Eastern football teams. Varsity swimmers and trackmen chose him captain. His Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers made him their president. His classmates, who had already elected him their president, put him in the presidency of their honor society, Casque & Gauntlet. Dartmouth at large chose him to head the student governing body. When he went up before a Rhodes Scholarship committee last autumn, it saw at once...
Right in line with its new policy of taking a more active part in the dissemination of knowledge, the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa yesterday announced the selection of George L. Haskins '35, as chairman of the newly-created Committee "for the publication of an undergraduate essay showing distinctive originality and independent thought...
...neat little cloth-bound book appearing in September will be the honor given by the Phi Beta Kappa to the undergraduate whose essay is considered by the Committee the best piece of work done during this college year. Departmental and Bowdoin Prize essays will constitute the field from which the essay to be published will be chosen. In commenting on the newest activity of the honorary society here, Professor Chase said, "This is an admirable scheme and a very profitable one for Phi Beta Kappa to undertake. I am much in favor...
...invitation dinner for the Phi Beta Kappa will be given at the Harvard Club of Boston on Friday, April...
...nation's first woman to serve on a state Supreme Court, the first to sentence a murderer to death. Born in Salt Lake City, Florence Allen, at 15, moved with her family to Cleveland, was her class cheer leader at Western Reserve, graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1904. An able musician, she went to Berlin to study, earned piano money by writing criticisms for New York's Musical Courier. Two years later she returned to Cleveland as the Plain Dealer's music editor. New York University gave her an LL. B. An able feminist...