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...spirited debate. (Sample topic: "Whether Polygamy is a dictate of Nature or not.") They devised a secret handshake and an initiation rite. The group, in fact, might have ended up as just one more fraternity but for a sober motto-and philosophy-based on the Greek letters ΦBK : "love of wisdom the guide of life." The Virginia chapter collapsed after only five years, in 1781, but not before it had sent an emissary north to Yale and Harvard. This month in Cambridge, Mass., the Alpha chapter at Harvard, which, more than any other has helped shape Phi Beta Kappa...
...happen to want book ALA 1952.293.2, but the new cards added insult to injury. As if the whole thing were a big in-group joke, a little box in the lower right-hand corner of the card instructed DO NOT WRITE BELOW, and followed this command with an enigmatic BK...
Minnesota: Dewight D. Taylor, Jr., '41; 1260 Northwestern Bk. Bldg., Minneapolis...
Dalias: George C. Powell '31; New England Life Ins. Co., Mercantile Bk. Bldg., Dallas...
Rocky Mountain: Floyd K. Haskell '37; First Nat'l Bk. Bldg., Denver, Colo...