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...January meeting, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa chapter joins other campus groups in asking Harvard to divest its holdings in banks lending money to the South African government. President Bok declines comment...
Collegium Musicum and the Glee Club join Phi Beta Kappa and other campus groups in asking Harvard to divest its shares in banks lending money to the South African government. President Bok says, "It's a very complex question...
...indelible, immutable badge of mental prowess or dullness. Instead, the whole IQ concept is under suspicion. Many school systems, including those in California and New York City, have abandoned IQ testing altogether. College admissions officers have little use for them. Neither do such competitive organizations as NASA, IBM or Phi Beta Kappa...
...falling Scholastic Aptitude Tests scores [Sept. 5], you suggest that one reason for the decline in these scores might be decreased motivation among test takers as opportunities for getting into college have widened. I suggest another reason for this presumed lack of ambition. This December I will graduate Phi Beta Kappa from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. in psychology; if I'm lucky, I may be able to get a job typing. So much for motivation...
...nine years older than Rita, thinks of himself as world weary and is more entitled to that opinion than many. He has at various times been a short-story writer, Golden Gloves boxer, top-ranked college football player, bartender, janitor, helicopter pilot, Army captain and scholar. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pomona College and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar where, as Kris Carson, he dabbled in pop music. After quitting both academe and the Army, he began drifting. At 29 he found himself in Nashville, and he began writing songs like The Silver-Tongued Devil...