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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Edward Everett Hale delivered the Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown, Tuesday...
Edward Everett Hale in his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown Tuesday, on "What's the American People," strove to make every scholar realize more fully the difference between the sovereign of America-the people-and the aristocratic and oligarchic sovereigns of the older nations. He said that the old simile by which nations have been described-the pyramid-was not applicable to the United States, that this nation was not one of vast lower classes and small numbers of well to do rulers and leaders, but that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large...
...Beta Kappa. Harvard chapter. Business meeting, Boylston Hall, west lecture room...
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. Sunday, June 21-Thursday, 25. Sunday, baccalaureate by President Bartlett, address before Young Men's Christian Association by Dr. Howard Crosby; Wednesday, Phi Beta Kappa meeting, dedication of Rollins chapel and Wilson hall, orations by A. H. Quint of Dover, and Mellen Chamberlain of New York, concert; Thursday, alumni meeting, commencement exercises...
...Greek letter societies, whose numbers have so increased and multiplied as to render a complete enumeration impossible. The list appended, therefore, embraces only the ten oldest and most influential societies which draw their membership principally to the Eastern States. The first of the Greek letter organizations, the venerable Phi Beta Kappa, was established at William and May, Dec. 5, 1776. There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct, as is now the college itself. Twenty-two chapters now exist, being, in the order of the establishmen, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth...