Word: betas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years before our Natural History Society was started by members of the classes of '37 and '38, there was founded at Williams College a secret society, Phi Beta Theta, which soon changed its title and became as the Williams Lyceum of Natural History, a society for the study of natural science. It is the oldest college scientific society in America and will be represented in the course of lectures the Harvard Society is giving by Dr. Samuel F. Clarke, professor of biology at Williams, the lecturer of to-night...
...following are the officers of the '88 Phi Beta Kappa: Secretary, E. R. Thayer; first marshall, R. B. Mahany; second marshall, E. A. Harriman...
...publish a paragraph from the Yale News with respect to the recent election of the members of the Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. The spirit of the article in question proves the utter needlessness of any serious reply beyond a simple and direct denial of the statement. It is useless to attempt to argue with those who do not care to learn facts, and who add prejudice to ignorance. When pugilism is said to be the recommendation for membership in the Harvard chapter, the writer who spreads such silly gossip stamps himself as ignorant not only of the Phi Beta...
...recent Phi Beta Kappa elections at Harvard, seventeen men were appointed from '87 and eight from '88. Class stand did not alone determine the choice, but athletic and literary proficiency was taken into consideration. According to the New York Tribune, one was drawn as being the best roator, two because of their poetical ability, and a fourth owing to his success as a boxer. - Yale News...
...students in the way of lectures are exceedingly attractive, and are being enjoyed to a greater or less extent by all. The courses are: Mechanics, in Sheffield Hall, a series of fourteen lectures upon subjects of a popular nature; a course under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, given on Wednesday evenings from time to time throughout the year; the Dwight Hall lectures on Monday evenings in the new Y. M. C. A. building. given by eminent divines of various denominations; and, finally, the lectures, to graduates which are also open to other members of the University, begin...