Word: betas
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Beta Kappa oration, quoted in the last Magenta, Mr. Adams touches a chord which by both faculty and students should be made to vibrate in response. With characteristic calmness and decision he brings against Harvard two serious charges, the more serious because coming from one who at home and abroad has done high honor to his Alma Mater, and whose public utterances, in this latitude at least, are never heard but with attention...
...Junior eight, at present the immediate members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, have elected Mr. W. Richmond, Recording Secretary. At the annual meeting, the day after Commencement, the orator will probably be Charles Francis Adams, Sr.; the poet has not yet been fixed upon; the marshals, from the Junior Class, will be Mr. Richmond, chief, and Mr. Wigglesworth and Mr. C. F. Withington, assistants...
...annual Phi Beta Kappa supper, which came off the evening of May 8, was an event of much interest and pleasure to the members of the ancient and honorable society. The wit did not flag, the songs were sung with spirit and received with hearty applause, and the walk from Boston, in the early morning, was made pleasant by moonlight and invigorating air. Not materially disturbed by the attentions of officious "peelers," with Auld Lang Syne and a ring in front of University, the party broke...