Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposed to resuscitate the Phi Bita Kappa Society of Yale College. The membership, if the plan succeeds, is to consist of one from each class who obtains a philosophical or high oration in the junior appointments. There is considerable opposition to the scheme among the anti-society...
...Beta Kappa will be requested to charter a chapter at Rochester...
...secret societies which have organized chapters here are, the Alpha Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Theta Delta Chi and Kappa Gamma...
...which Emerson and Sumner belonged. Mr. Phillips' life was so much a part of the history of our people that any account of it would be superfluous. A member of the class of 1831, Mr. Phillips signalized the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation by his well known Phi Beta Kappa address, in which he charged upon the educated men of the country their disregard of questions of public good. This address which attracted so much adverse criticism has been considered by many a vindication of Mr. Phillips' course of action during the many political contests in which he took part...
...discussion of the matter of the abolition of the prescribed study of Greek in the colleges, at present a question of such living interest to Harvard, is continued by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in a third edition of his recent Phi Beta Kappa address, containing an appendix with much new matter and further testimony on the subject. Mr. Adams considers the recent argument derived from the testimony and experience of Berlin University in the matter, and calls particular attention to the agitation of the Greek question in England, particularly at the universities, where he thinks that the tendency of opinion...