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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston Latin's Trophy Sirs: May I inform the managing editor of The Exonian, through your columns, that the Boston Public Latin School for Boys has received the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University for permanent possession rather than Phillips Exeter Academy...
Sirs: I was surprised to see on p. 2 of your issue of June 29 a letter entitled "No Lead Shot," in which the Managing Editor of The Exonian asserts that "Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University, in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered." I should like to say that on the Head Master's mantle rests the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Trophy, which was won by the Lawrenceville School in 1930. Exeter won this in 1929. If the winning of the Phi Beta...
...Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Trophy, a plaque showing a cap-&-gowned student clenching a diploma in his hand and striding stiffly across Harvard Yard toward the famed seated statue of Puritan John Harvard, was won by Boston Latin School from 1925 through 1928 successively, then by Exeter, then by Lawrenceville. This year's award, the final year of a second term of competition,* has not yet been made. No matter who is the 1931 winner, the Trophy goes permanently to Boston Latin for having won it four times out of seven...
Your article entitled "Exeter's 150th" in the issue of June 15 was decidedly off-color (if you will pardon me for saying so) in many respects. For your own benefit Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered. This would seem to prove that Exeter is more "potent scholastically" than other schools of its kind, despite your contention to the contrary...
...Monday morning at 11.30 o'clock the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual meeting. The literary exercises in Sanders Theatre, to which the public is invited, will be preceded by a business meeting to be held in Emerson Hall at 10 o'clock. At the Sanders Theatre exercises, the oration will be given by Professor J. H. Beale, and the poet of the society will be Professor Odell Shepard; judge W. C. Wait '82 will preside. A dinner to the society will be served to the--society at 1 o'clock in the Union...