Phi Beta Kappa Is Not A Social Fraternity; Exclusive Honor Society Losing CachetSusan C. Thomson
1892: James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball. 1908: Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by black college women. 1919: A molasses storage tank explodes in Boston, sending 2,300,000 gallons through the streets of North End. The Great Molasses...
Once parents feel that a well-structured year is essential to their would-be undergraduate’s progress to a better university, a good degree, an impressive CV and well paid employment, as the gap companies’ blurbs suggest it might be, then parents will start organising—and paying for—the ...
Dr. David Minkoff graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974 and was elected to the “Phi Beta Kappa” of medical schools, the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Fraternity for very high academic achievement. He then completed both a Pediatric Re...
It was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Harvard. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work Nature, published a year earlier, in which he established a new way for America‘s fledgling society to regard the...
TheCum Laude Societyis dedicated to honoring scholastic achievement in secondary schools. The founders of the society modeled Cum Laude after Phi Beta Kappa. TheCalifornia Scholarship Federationis a state-wide organization to honor outstanding high school students in California. ...
Winograd, a Stanford law student at the time, with a 4.0 department GPA, high honors in Political Science, his Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude, came face to face with what he called “my own sloppy logic and slipshod thinking about the issue.” ...
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, with top honors from Stanford Law School, and then returned home to New York City to join McKinsey & Company.Doc Merlin 24. May 2010 at 13:19 @muirgeo Did you even read Scott’s posts? Scott already answered Krugman’s post. ‘I...
Reward and mood processes are modulated by the presence of the kappa opioid receptor (KOR). The employment of drugs of abuse, as per recent reports, is associated with an amplified production of dynorphin and an enhanced activation of the KOR system. Depressive and anxiety-related disorders, ...
The son of a wealthy New York City philanthropist, Roosevelt was an outstanding student who graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard in 1880. He then entered Columbia Law School, but dropped out shortly after in order to run for a term as a New York Assemblyman. He later...