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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hawkins, who graduated from Walpole High School, is a student of English Literature. During his junior year he was one of the eight members of his class elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the Signet Society, the Dramatic Club, and the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770. He is also president of the Art Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palfrey Prize Is Won by Hawkins | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

...proved it by graduating from the University of Missouri a Phi Beta Kappa, then tried the newspaper business for three years, on small Midwestern papers and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When the University of Missouri set up its new journalism school, Charlie Ross went back to teach, stayed at it for nine years before he went back to the P-D and a top-drawer job as head of its new Washington bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brightest Boy in Class | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa held its annual winter dinner and meeting last night in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Those members of the newly-elected Senior Sixteen who were present were formally inducted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Convenes | 12/9/1950 | See Source »

Meat for the Grinder. During his four years at Ohio Wesleyan University, Stanton continued to work at the Metropolitan, commuting 90 miles to Dayton every weekend. He also found time to be elected president of the senior honorary society and of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta; to be put on probation for his part in the production of a college musical, some of whose lines offended the Methodist sensibilities of Ohio Wesleyan's faculty, and to split a $2,100 profit as editor of the college yearbook, which was illustrated by a boyhood chum who later became well-known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At the End of the Rainbow | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...same complaint : the law school graduates who came to them for jobs did not seem to know either spelling or grammar. Dean Johnston decided that Denver graduates would be different, this year gave incoming students a special test. Last week he announced the results: half the class, including one Phi Beta Kappa, had flunked. Samples of examination answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Employers Are Unanimous | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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