Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Huston Finley, Editor of the New York Times will be the orator at the anniversary meeting of the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre on Friday, June 19. Arthur Davison Ficke '04 will be the poet and Professor E. K. Rand '94, the President of the Society, will preside at the meeting according to an announcement made by the society recently...
These meetings, which have been a traditional feature of the Commencement Week exercises of the University chapter since its organization in 1791, are yearly the occasion of literary exercises of the first rank for scholarly value. Such men as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (hon.) '59 have read poems at these meetings. Among the men who have delivered lorations on these occasions are Edward Everett 1811, Joseph Story 1798, and Charles Sumner...
...scarcely fair to Williams to term it "a glorified country club", although we admit that the quantity of golf hose in the student laundry is prodigious. No more is it fair to say that your Harvard host permits you to sit in the corner until he finishes his chapter of Epicurus, and then yawns constantly during a difficult conversation...
...game today will be umpired by Professor A. N. Holcombe '06. After the P. B. K. game against the Yale chapter in 1906, in which Professor Holcombe knocked a home run, the Professor left baseball strictly alone, fearing to break his record. Today will be his first appearance on a diamond since that day of 20 years...
Although the University Phi Beta Kappa has challenged the Yale chapter to a game some time in June, the Yale men have not answered. It is understood that, since the game is scheduled to be held here this year, the Yale men are unable to afford the trip without pawning their Keys...