Earlier this week, the national academic honor society phi Beta Kappa announced that it had elected 48 seniors to its Harvard chapter.

Phi Beta Kappa bases its selections on GPA and faculty recommendations. No more than 10 percent of any class may receive the honor.

These 48 students were part of the second round of Phi Beta Kappa elections for the Class of 1999. Twenty-four students were elected in the first round this spring. All will officially become members of the chapter in a formal ceremony on Jan. 12.

Honoree Jordan A. Cooper of Winthrop House said the award had a special meaning for him.

"It was an anniversary of sorts.. My father won the same award in December of '59," Cooper said. "It's especially important to me."

Some honorees were not even aware of their acceptance.

"I guess I should check my mail more often," Shalimar A.O. Fojas said. Fojas, of Winthrop House, said she was excited about earning the honor.

Miriam B. Goldstein of Adams House said she did not consider the award "an objective measure of accomplishment."

"You rely on the fact that you've built relationships with professors during your time at Harvard," Goldstein said, referring to the two faculty recommendations necessary for selection.

"One thing I really think about these fellowships based on GPA is that you have to take it with a grain of salt," Goldstein said. "People take all different classes. Of course I'm honored to have received it."

Goldstein is also one of Harvard's four Marshall Scholarship winners. The other three, Daniel J. Benjamin, C. Thomas Brown and Eric M. Nelson, were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the first round. Of Harvard's Rhodes Scholarship winners, Navin Narayan of Adams House also received the Phi Beta Kappa honor in the first round.

The results of the third and largest round of elections for this year's senior

class will be announced later in the spring.

The electees are: Sarah E. Clark-Schmidt,Goldstein and Cheryl A. Gray of Adams House;Mulaika Hijjas and Sudhir R. Vora of Cabot House;Gina Petrocelli, Joshua B. Plotkin, Esther T.Riggin and Himani C. Shah of Currier House; DelmaY. Jarrett, Joel B. Pollak and Shirling Tsai ofDunster House; Brian T. Garibaldi, Shalom E. Holtzand Kensaku Kawamoto of Eliot House; Ariel S. Freyand Ilana Kurshan of Kirkland House; Jessica E.Kahan, Gregorios Kranias, Scott B. Lovitch,Sharmil S. Modi and Geoffrey C. Upton of LeverettHouse; Elisa K. Cheng, Ka-Hyeong Lee, Suzanne M.Miller and Markella V. Zanni of Lowell House; MaryM. Berlik, Irene A. Chen, Michael S. Emanuel andJean W. Galbraith of Mather House; Quentin Chu,Judson L. Jaffe, Grace S.Y. Kwak, Bradley J. Nash,Michael K. Titelbaum and Stanley C. Wei ofPforzheimer House; Joshua Derman, James T.L.Grimmelmann, Andrea E. Johnson, Jeremy D.Schnittman, Zachary L. Shrier, Daniel B. Tenny andRobert J. Teply of Quincy House; Cooper, VitalyDukhon, Fojas, Jared A. Kesselheim and Meredith M.Quinn of Winthrop House.

Derman, Garibaldi, Jaffe, Upton and Jarrett arealso Crimson editors