Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accordance with a belief that the nature of Phi Beta Kappa is not sufficiently understood by many undergraduates, the following statement has been prepared by the society, at the recommendation of the Student Council...
...honorary society of Phi Beta Kappa was founded during the Revolutionary War, at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, for the purpose of recognizing scholarship and character. A few years later, the second chapter was established at Harvard. Among the men who have won election to this chapter are John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, Phillips Brooks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Summer, Thomas Went worth Higginson, John Davis Long, Charles William Eliot, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, and Theodore Roosevelt...
Four men from the class of 1911 have been elected additional members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. One more member will be chosen later in the year after Commencement Honors have been announced. The men chosen are members of the Senior class who have combined distinguished excellence in scholarship with marked ability in other intellectual interests...
...provision in the constitution of the Phi Beta Kappa Society under which these men were elected reads as follows: "In order to meet exceptional cases where persons have shown distinguished excellence in scholarship, but have failed, for reasons not affecting their good characters to come within the requirements of Section 5 (which describes the procedure in the first elections), the immediate members may elect additional persons from their own class, not exceeding five in number...
...dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 6.45 o'clock. This dinner is being held as a reception to the thirty men who were chosen as members from the Senior and Junior classes about a month ago, and in a way will take the place of the annual award of distinctions, which was omitted this year...