Word: betas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa, held last Monday evening, the following men were elected from '87: Bailey, Baker, Bowen, A. C. Coolidge, C. F. A. Currier. A. T. Dudley, J. H. Gray, Hamilton, Herron, Huntington, Keep, Pinkham, Rich, Roffins, L. Robinson, Schofield, Stedman, C. S. Thompson. The first eight from '88 are as follows: Bocher, Duane, Hammett, Harriman, Leahy, Mahany, E. R. Thayer, Walden...
...BETA KAPPA.This society was first introduced into this country about the year 1776, in which year a charter was granted to the college of William and Mary of Virginia. The society quickly extended to Harvard, and a chapter was founded there in 1781. The object of the society was the promotion of literature and friendly intercourse among scholars, but only those students who obtained a high rank were admitted. The motto of the society is "Philosophia, Biou Kubernetes," or "Philosophy, the Guide of Life." The Phi Beta Kappa now has chapters in very nearly every college of note...
...Beta Kappa society was founded at Williams and Mary College...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - President Dwight has addressed the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale. He admits both free-will and the unavoidable force of circumstances. He continues with an exhortation to avoid extremes and then expresses his supreme confidence in Yale. He says the Yale student of to-day should be "just what the Yale student of the pasthas been." It is of course, just and proper for the heads of institutions to believe in his work. But to deny the necessity of improvement is unworthy of an educated man, much more of the president of a university. The great...
...HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 19. To-night President Dwight of Yale made an interesting address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale University in Livonia Hall. Among other things he said...