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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...executive committee, or "senate" as it is called, of the united branches of the Phi Beta Kappa Held their first meeting on Dec. 27, at the rooms of the fellows of this college in Water street. measures were taken to compile a complete catalogue of the society and to investigate its history. Among those present were Rev. Dr. Hale and Justin Winsor...
...chief attractions for visitors to the library. Years ago, before Gore Hall was built, it was kept in Harvard hall. During that time a custom prevailed with regard to it, which it is interesting to recall. Mr. Bigelow thus describes this custom in his Phi Beta Kappa poem...
...either in his title or preface intimate that the book he has given us is especially intended for the benefit of Mr. Adams, still the character of the pamphlet is such that it can be taken as nothing else but a quiet reply to the Phi Beta Kappa speech. The pamphlet in question is called "The Question of a Division of the Philosophical Faculty," and is made up of the inaugural address of Prof. Hofmann on the occasion of his assuming the rectorship of the University of Berlin, and of the two opinions of the Philosophical Faculty of that university...
...November number of the Beta Theta Pi magazine, contains an article on Harvard, written by Mr. H. W. Winkley, a graduate of the class of '81. While an article of this sort written for the information of those who are utterly unacquainted with the college is always more or less in the nature of a guide book, still it is interesting to note at times what impressions a graduate has formed of his own college and also what things strike him as peculiarly characteristic of the college and worthy of mention...
...fulfilled it is of course impossible for one not connected with the government of the college to judge. The statement certainly deserves considerable weight from the fact that Mr. Adams is a prominent member of the Board of Overseers and by his recent address before the Phi Beta Kappa has already taken the strongest stand possible in favor of the movement for the abolition of Greek as a requirement for admission. The report made by the committee of the Board of Overseers upon this subject last spring, sometime previous to Mr. Adams' address, it will be remembered gave very strong...