Word: betas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...close of the meeting President Lowell will return to Cambridge immediately. Mr. Eliot will, however, make a short tour through the Middle West, and on June 1 deliver the annual Phi Beta Kappa address at the University of Missouri. He will start back to Cambridge on June 2, and from Cambridge will go immediately to his summer home at Northeast Harbor, Maine...
...annual dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held at the Hotel Lenox this evening at 7 o'clock. Following out the custom instituted last year, delegates from Yale and from the University of Pennsylvania will be present. Mr. W. C. Lane '81 and A. A. Ballantine '04 will represent the graduates, F. Scheuck '09 will act as toastmaster, and P. G. Clapp '09 will give several piano selections. The speakers will be J. T. Addison '09, F. H. Cooke '10, orator, E. T. E. Hunt '10, poet, H. von Kaltenborn '09, H. E. Porter...
...useful in preceding years, and has grown in importance with every class. It furnishes one of the few opportunities at Harvard for a man to get on his feet and express his views about the University. Every branch of College activity, the athletic teams, the musical clubs, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the papers, are represented, and the discussions can be made exceedingly profitable. We urge the 1910 members to attend all the dinners, and make the Round Table even more successful this year than it has been in the past...
After noting the fragment of reminiscence of "Early Days in Phi Beta Kappa," which in its brevity but whets curiosity without satisfying it, the impression made upon the reader formulates itself in the hearty wish that the contributors would write in English instead of in dialect. Whether dialect writing is of any philological value may well be questioned; that the reading of dialect is tiresome to a degree is certain. The same amount of labor and skill wasted upon such productions would be better bestowed on efforts to acquire mastery of a true English style and in developing powers...
Five men from the class of 1909 have been elected additional members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. These men are elected from those members of the Senior class who, although they have not qualified as regular candidates for admission to the society, have attained distinguished excellence in scholarship and have shown ability in other intellectual interests...