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...Beat Kappa Society is the oldest Greek letter society in America. The Harvard chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was founded in 1779. The society endeavors to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments and also by the example and activity of this group of scholars to further the intellectual interests of the whole undergraduate body. The criterion of election is always the candidate's scholarship...
...Lincoln and Some Phases of the Civil War" was the subject of the oration of James Ford Rhodes at the literary exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday morning. Mr. Rhodes prefaced his specific comments by saying that Lincoln was not as faultless as he seems to some of us, but that one need not hesitate to point out his short-comings, knowing that his virtues will swing the balance far in his favor...
...University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, before its annual literary exercises yesterday, elected four honorary members, as well as officers for next year. The men honored by the society were Alfred Noyes, of Exeter College, Oxford, England, who delivered his poem "A Plea for Peace" in Sanders Theatre yesterday; Sidney Edward Mezes '92, president of the University of Texas from 1908 to 1914 and recently made president of the College of the City of New York; Chester Noyes Greenough '98, professor of English at Harvard; and Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor-in-chief of the New York Evening...
With the election last night of five men from those graduating with distinction, the University chapter has completed its quota of forty members from the class of 1915; and doubtless the Society will as usual receive some criticism for the results. Undeniably on the margin there are some men, with qualifications nearly or even practically as good as the last few men chosen, who yet fail to be elected. This is inevitable, for the line must be drawn somewhere. The prestige of the society and the value of membership in it depend upon restricted numbers. It must also be remembered...
...University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold its final meeting for the election of members from the class of 1915 in the Trophy Room of the Union tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock. Five men will be elected from among those receiving degrees with distinction at graduation...