Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Prior to the exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa Society yesterday, the complete list of winners of academic prizes for the past year was announced...
...Beta Kappa Spread on lawn in front of Phillips Brooks House between 6 and 8 o'clock...
...practically as good as the last few men chosen, who yet fail to be elected. This is inevitable, for the line must be drawn somewhere. The prestige of the society and the value of membership in it depend upon restricted numbers. It must also be remembered that Phi Beta Kappa does not claim to reward latent mental ability: it bases its elections upon scholarly achievement in College and evidence of scholarly promise...
...however, highly desirable that these methods be officially and clearly defined. The constitution of the Society merely states that "scholarship and good character shall be the grounds of election." But traditions are frail, and those which Phi Beta Kappa has built up for its elections could well be set forth in the by-laws and made accessible in print to the members. At present continuity is attained only through the few Junior members whose interest leads them to attend elections at which they have no vote...
...Beta Kappa is not a secret organization: it rewards scholarship in the entire College. And it is in the belief that it discharges that function in ways essentially satisfactory that this suggestion for crystallizing those methods is offered. Care should be taken that future members appreciate the fact that it is scholarship alone, freed from all personal considerations, upon which they are to base their elections...