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...Interscholastic Scholarship Trophy of the University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, which is annually awarded to the preparatory school whose candidates for admission have made the best record at the entrance examinations, has been given this year to the St. Mark's School at Southborough. Of the 20 St. Mark's men who took the examinations, five appear on the honor list. The names of the honor candidates...
...annual winter dinner of the University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa will be held in the Union on Tuesday evening, December 4, at 7 o'clock. Before the dinner, at 6.30 o'clock, the new members of the Society from the classes of 1918 and 1919 will be initiated. Members of other chapters of the Society resident in the University are welcome at the dinner. If their names are not already on the secretary's list made last year, they are asked to communicate either with the undergraduate secretary, A. L. Whitman '18, Holworthy 2, or with the corresponding...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776, and is the oldest Greek letter society in America. The University chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was established in 1779; its list of members comprises such names as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, James Russell Lowell '38, Charles W. Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, Frederick Jesup Stimson '76, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane '81. The society endeavors to gather the leaders in scholastic attainments from each class, and also to raise the intellectual tone of the entire undergraduate body...
There have been three matters before the Convention affecting the University and the other institutions of higher education in the State. It was proposed to broaden that chapter, incorporated 137 years ago in the original organic law of Massachusetts, which singles out the University for special mention and commends it to the favor of future generations, to include all the colleges of the Commonwealth. This amendment which was drafted with the aid of officials of the University, was rejected for reasons not connected with the University, thus leaving the status of the latter unchanged...
President Alexander Meikeljohn, of Amherst College, will be the orator, and Hermann Hagedorn, Jr., '07, of Fairfield, Conn., the poet, at the annual literary exercises of the University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society in Sanders Theatre this morning at 11.30 o'clock. Professor Charles Hall Grandgent '83 will preside. Members of the University and other chapters will form in procession in front of Harvard Hall at 11.15 o'clock, and will march to Sanders Theatre. The public will be admitted...