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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bingham's statement came in answer to the New York Herald Tribune reports that Howard (Jake) Cann, New York University coach, was "interested" in the Harvard job. Cann, after 26 years of coaching at NYU, is "dissatisfied with year-to-year contracts." He indicated that he was chiefly interested in getting a contract covering a longer period...
...Cann and regards the Tribune story as so much speculation. Cann himself makes it clear that he has not been approached with any offffeffrff from Harvard and has not been in communication with any athletic officials from the College. He has said that any proposition, "even if it came from Hong Kong," would interest him, whether or not be considered it seriously...
...first Phi Beta Kappa Society came into existence December 5, 1776 at William and Mary in Virginia. It introduced all the ritual and mysticism employed by contemporary fraternities--an oath of secrecy, a badge, mottoes in Greek and Latin, a code of laws, an elaborate form of initiation, a seal, and a special hand-clasp...
...Beta Kappa's metamorphosis to an honor society came at no particular time--it just gradually "happened" in the middle eighteen hundreds. The society of scholars settled down to an annual routine of meeting for election and initiation of new members, holding exercises in June at which scholarly orations and poems are read, and having annual dinners...
Since they were all successful scholars, the Phi Beta Kappas came to the conclusion that they could play a useful and knowing role as an advising body. They hope to set up shop at the Union after the faculty has completed its briefing of the Freshmen on choosing a field of concentration. There the Phi Beta Kappas will dispense informal advice to Freshmen trying to make up their minds...