Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Fortnight ago, Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, put Science and Industry in their places in a speech to U. S. life insurance presidents (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week Scientist Millikan, speaking before a Manhattan meeting of Phi Beta Kappa alumni, related Science and the Humanities. Himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (science honor society), he suggested that since modern science owes its beginnings to oldtime scholars of the humanities, the two branches of knowledge should come in closer contact today through a union of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society, and Tau Beta...
...Scholarship Trophy offered by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was awarded this year to the Lawrenceville School, of which Dr. Mather Abbott is headmaster...
...present the standing of the two groups of teams in the fraternity indoor basebal league is as follows: Group A Won Lost Lambda Chi Alpha 3 0 Kappa Sigma 2 1 Phike Club 2 1 Tau Epsilon Phi 2 1 Phi Epsilon Pi 0 3 Trident Club 0 3 Group B Kappa Nu 2 0 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1 0 Sigma Alpha Mu 1 0 Alpha Chi Sigma 0 2 Delta Upsilon...
This evening some 40 men will step into the society of those elect whom the University allows to present an expansive equatorial region to the envious eyes of the not-so-scholastically fortunate. In other words President Lowell is to hand out Phi Beta Kappa keys to those students whose intellectual harvest is leavened with the appropriate number of alphas and betas. May Diogenes discover, or CRIMSON repertorial inquisitors invent the recipient of such a pendant who is proud to wear a wrist-watch...
...Beta Kappa means "Learning at the Helm of Life." But Heaven help the ship of state that has a scholar for a pilot. Today perhaps a scientist can chart the seven seas, but it takes a captain with control and leadership to batten down the hatches. The Phi Beta key, its advocates announce, can open many doors, but hatches, are something else again. And anyway, too many males have left their coats quite carelessly unbuttoned for the abdominal honor to be considered a master key to the most exclusive dwellings...