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...cigarette cartons, and his mother had a comfortable income from her family's wholesale tobacco business. Neither of these pursuits entranced young Bennett at all. Nor did a literary career. By the time he graduated from Columbia in 1919 with a B.A. degree in journalism and a Phi Beta Kappa key, his mother had died, leaving him $100,000. With nothing better in mind, "Beans," as Cerf was known in those days, joined his uncle's brokerage house as a clerk...
...present system assigns rank the same way Phi Beta Kappa picks out students for possible election. An "A" is worth 12 points, and the scale goes down from there -- 11 points for an A-minus, 10 points for a B-plus, 9 points...
...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last week elected 12 seniors to its ranks. They...
JOHN HILDEBIDLE JR.: Varsity football, undergraduate manager; Varsity Club; Phillips Brooks House; Kirkland House Committee; Kirkland House Social Committee; Phi Beta Kappa, junior eight; Hasty Pudding; Group...
...language, Arrowsmith is no irresponsible crusader. He holds three degrees from Princeton, plus a B.A. from his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, and he taught at Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of California at Riverside before shifting to Texas in 1958. He first turned public critic in a series of Phi Beta Kappa lectures at ten campuses in 1964. At this month's convention of the American Council on Education in New Orleans, Arrowsmith boldly laid his criticisms before 1,400 college trustees, presidents and deans. He accused them of selling out to "the research professoriate" through a "vacuum...