Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Beta Kappa Society will hold a reception and dinner to the 30 men who have just been elected to membership from the Junior and Senior classes, in the Union on Saturday evening at 6.30 o'clock. This date is the anniversary of the founding of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...undergraduate and graduate members of the Harvard chapter, and all members of other Phi Beta Kappa chapters who are now students or officers of the University are urged to attend and to notify Mr. W. C. Lane at the Widener Library, as soon as possible, of their intention of doing...
...Beta Kappa Society announces the election of Cloyd Laporte '16, of St. Louis, Mo., as First Marshal; Kenneth Ballard Murdock '16, of Chestnut Hill, as Second Marshal; Walter Marshall Horton '17, of Arlington, as Poet; Jacob Adams Emery '17, of Philadelphia, Pa., as Orator; and Kenneth Ballard Murdock '16, as secretary...
...following twenty-two Seniors and eight Juniors have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Scholarly achievement and scholarly promise have been the basis of election, and a conscientious attempt has been made to do justice to every eligible name. In determining the elections, scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate grounds for decision; the difficulty of the courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also, received due consideration. The names of the successful candidates are arranged below alphabetically, and not according to order to election...
With the growth of classes Phi Beta Kappa elections become more significant every year, for the percentage from each class becomes smaller. Competition has also grown keener, and hence the honor won by the men whose names are announced this morning is greater than it was in former days. The elections, moreover, have been conducted as fairly as a college grading system will allow, and scholarship has been the only standard. To men who have been busy in College affairs and have also made the Society, this is distinctly added honor; to others it is, of course, an achievement...