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...opening will make Harvard one of the last law schools in the country to start a chapter of Phi Alpha Delta (PAD), the nation's second largest legal association--second only to the American Bar Association...
Thomas Jefferson went here, although he later founded the University of Virginia. Phi Beta Kappa began here and is still going strong. William and Mary has everything any self-respecting Ivy League school could boast of, except inclement weather...
Almost half the student body belongs to a fraternity or sorority; as one Phi Mu puts it, "There just isn't very much social life anywhere else." But the sports oriented, rah-rah atmosphere associated with the Greeks is absent. "There's not much interest in sports around here, with the possible exception of basketball," one student from nearby Richmond says. "Hardly anyone goes to football games...
...take her study habits. Every term, she swears to most of her friends and tutors that she is failing, that she cannot possibly finish all her work, that she doesn't understand a thing. And then she aces the final exam and is nominated for Phi Beta Kappa...
...writes books that win prizes, publishes articles in scholarly magazines, lectures on medical ethics, and leads seminars. In between she speaks five languages, earns honorary Phi Beta Kappa degrees, and studies philosophy. And she's sat on the advisory boards of the Amnesty International Medical Committee, the "Encyclopedia of Bioethics," and the Committee on Clinical Investigation of Children's Hospital in Boston...