Phi Bete
Americannoun
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a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Phi Beta Kappa.
Example Sentences
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There he set pass-catching records that stood for more than 20 years, made All-Ivy and Phi Bete and spurned a Philadelphia Eagles offer in order to go to graduate business school.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Phi Bete graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was a Mormon missionary for three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the Phi Bete does not leap ahead, does the campus politician?
From Time Magazine Archive
He is a Phi Bete from Dartmouth, flew with Rickenbacker in World War I, graduated in reporting from the cooperative City News Bureau, from which he hires up to 18 bright young newsmen a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
I know perfectly well that some fellows can go out for a bunch of activities and make Phi Bete, too; but they're sharks and I'm not.
From The Plastic Age by Marks, Percy
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