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Professor Ralph Barton Perry told the members of Phi Beta Kappa this week that it is far easier to get educated than to stay educated. That is the challenge of commencement in a capsule. This year's graduates, like every year's, will be urged to remake the world that their ancestors have mangled, to preserve freedom, to learn to make decisions, and to be good citizens. Most of them will do these things automatically, according to their own beliefs and abilities, because these are the prescribed things...
Eightyeight seniors were elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday morning, with six other honorary members also chosen. After the election meeting the Society held its annual literary meeting at Sanders Theatre, followed by luncheon in Fogg Museum...
Williams, a New Jersey physician and part-time author, has published both prose and poetry, including "Spring and All," "An Early Martyr," and "In the Money." In his Phi Beta Kappa poem he described a trip taken in Mexico, and used realistic imagery in an effort to show that a poet does not simply reproduced what he sees, but rather sets down the music inspired by the sight. Later in his speech he urged that American authors build up an American language of their own and cease copying the Englishman's language...
...students elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
...following Seniors and one Junior were elected to Phi Beta Kappa June 16, William J. Adelson, Social Relations; Julius Binstock, Romance Languages and Literatures; Burton N. Bromson, Government; Samuel C. Butler, Economics; Sheldon L. Berens, History; Richard H. Berg, Government; Irwin M. Bravermen Biology; Howard M. Brown, Music; Harold L. Burstum, History and Science William N. Center, Far Eastern Languages; Joseph S. Clark, History and Literature; Stephen P. Clement, Jr., Biochemical Sciences; William A. Coles, English; Archibald C. Colidge, Jr., English; Joseph B. Dallett, Classics; Alfred David, English; Robert J. Davis, Astronomy; Robert G. Dederick, Economics Frank de Leeuw, Economics...