Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the undergraduate members of the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa held recently, Porter Ralph Chandler '21 of Geneseo, New York, was elected First Marshal. This honor is awarded each year by the Society to the member of the Senior class whose academic record is the highest...
Hermon Dunlap Smith '21 of Chicago, Illinois, was elected Second Marshal of the University chapter. This office is also honorary, and is annually awarded to the Recording Secretary except in unusual circumstances. Smith prepared at the Francis W. Parker School, Chicago. If present at the close of the year, the two marshals march at the head of the procession of scholars on Phi Beta Kappa Day, but they have no other duties...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776 and is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America. The Harvard chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, established in 1779, comprises such men among its members as Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, James Russell Lowell '38, Charles W. Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, Frederick J. Stimson '76, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane '81. 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...
...Villa and of Carranza; of Lenine and Trotzky, and our soldiers who died in Russia without knowing why they were sent there or for whose cause they fought, is enough to make all Americans, "who never fight," blush with shame and bitter humiliation. And now to these awful chapters must be added the Haitian chapter--a scandal which the mendacious mal-administrator of the Navy Department is now trying to whitewash by appointing his own investigators to investigate his own record after he has been "caught with the goods" and "smoked out." It must be probed to the bone...
...President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers, under the Legislative Act of 1902, "The recipients of all degrees heretofore or hereafter granted by Harvard College other than the recipients of the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Honorary Degrees, whose rights are fixed by Chapter 173 of the Acts of 1865 as amended, shall be entitled to vote for Overseers to the same extent to which recipients of the degree of Bachelor of Arts may now so vote and under the same restrictions...