Word: kappa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...oration before the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at its meeting in Cambridge on Thursday, June 29th, will be delivered by the Hon. Carl Schurz of New York...
...Beta Kappa dinner takes place this evening at Young...
...seventeen seniors who, with the present immediate members of the Phi Beta Kappa, form the first twenty-five in rank on the class of '82, general scale of three years, are : Messrs. Dakin, Cook, G. M. Richardson, Ludlow, A. Hall, Dickerman, Waite, Fiske, Whitman, W. H. Dunbar, J. W. Mason, Gage, Rice, Robinson, Fernald, Bullard, Allen. The first eight juniors on the class of '83, general scale of two years, are : Messrs. Grandgent, Hodges, Hubbard, Evans, McInnes, H. Putnam, Loeb, O'Callaghan. The present eight petitioned the general chapter to raise the number from twenty-five to one-seventh...
...appointments to Phi Beta Kappa have been made at Amherst...
...first Greek letter society in America appeared in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, and was called the Phi Beta Kappa. Its origin is a mystery, and it is a disputed question as to whether it was founded by Thomas Jefferson, sprang from a Free Mason's lodge, or was introduced from Europe. - [University Herald...