Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Elaborate preparations are being made for the forty-first annual convention of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, to be held in Chicago, Oct. 19 and 20, with the Northwestern Alumni Association. Delegates from thirty-one different colleges and thirteen alumni associations will be present at this reunion, and the outlook now is that this will be the largest and most important gathering of college men, graduates, and undergraduates that Chicago has ever seen. The convention committee, of which Tracy C. Drake, Grand Pacific Hotel, is secretary, has nearly completed all the necessary arrangements, and announces the following programme...
...Beta Kappa. Harvard Chapter. Business Meeting, Boylston Hall, West Lecture Room, 12 m. - No literary Exercises. - Dinner at 2 p. m., in Lower Massachusetts...
...following are the officers of the '88 Phi Beta Kappa: Secretary, E. R. Thayer; first marshall, R. B. Mahany; second marshall, E. A. Harriman...
...publish a paragraph from the Yale News with respect to the recent election of the members of the Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. The spirit of the article in question proves the utter needlessness of any serious reply beyond a simple and direct denial of the statement. It is useless to attempt to argue with those who do not care to learn facts, and who add prejudice to ignorance. When pugilism is said to be the recommendation for membership in the Harvard chapter, the writer who spreads such silly gossip stamps himself as ignorant not only of the Phi Beta...
...recent Phi Beta Kappa elections at Harvard, seventeen men were appointed from '87 and eight from '88. Class stand did not alone determine the choice, but athletic and literary proficiency was taken into consideration. According to the New York Tribune, one was drawn as being the best roator, two because of their poetical ability, and a fourth owing to his success as a boxer. - Yale News...