Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sketch of the relations of the Federation of Territorial Clubs of the College at large, by J. B. Langstaff '13, its founder and first president. This is followed by a treatise on Scholarship" in the second chapter by D. E. Dunbar '13, who was second marshal of Phi Beta Kappa in his Senior year. He explains the system of instruction and of granting scholastic honors. W. L. Ustick '13 describes religious life to the University in the following chapter showing its connection with and inference on University life...
...actuated by a fifth group desire to assist the destitute Jones family might mail a check of such a comfortable figure that the Jones' would readily testify to the individual's right to receive a first group in his philanthropy course. Why, one might even obtain his Phi Beta Kappa key for a prescribed number of checks--the plan is limitless; or, perhaps, our less fortunate fellows are to be doled out in equal proportions for the craving philanthropists to practice their good works upon...
...this year totaled $8,195.80, and expenditures $6,596.28, thus leaving a surplus of $1,599.52. The first of the eleventh annual series of Silliman Lectures was given on Monday afternoon by Dr. Joseph Paxon Iddings on the subject of the "Phenomena of Volcanism." On Tuesday evening Phi Beta Kappa celebrated its one hundred and thirty-fourth anniversary with a banquet at the Taft Hotel. Twenty-eight members of the Junior class were initiated immediately before the banquet. On the same evening Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard delivered the second of the Bromley Lectures on Journalism, Literature, and Public Affairs...
This should not be increased by an advertising campaign on the part of Phi Beta Kappa to induce men to "come out." The man who "comes out" and "makes" the fraternity by hard labor, just as he would make the CRIMSON, is not likely to be a very good scholar by taste and choice, and in after life he is too likely to confine his interest in scholarship to resting from his grinding and to displaying his hard...
...made to Freshmen by the leading scholar of the Senior class; in English A the attention of the new men is called to the valuable scholarships which the University offers; and, touching the honorary fraternity of scholars, a sober and dignified statement of the purposes of Phi Beta Kappa is published at the beginning of the year in the CRIMSON. Surely this is enough to acquaint every student with the fact that there are certain rewards for intelligent study. There is no need of lowering the dignity of Phi Beta Kappa by issuing a call for candidates. C. LAPORTE...