Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following spaces have been assigned for Class Day Spreads: Wadsworth House, to S. A. E.; rear of Holworthy, to K. G. X.; east side of Thayer, to Alpha Phi Sigma; south side of Massachusetts Hall, to Kappa Sigma; Gymnasium, to Pi Eta; rear of Hollis Hall, to Speakers Club; east side of Fogg Museum, to Alpha Sigma Phi; north side of Stoughton, private spread; Holden Chapel, and Phillips Brooks House, to Phillips Brooks House...
Yesterday afternoon, the University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society received an acceptance of the challenge for a baseball game, sent to the Yale honor men about a month ago. The contest will be staged at New Haven during the week beginning June 9, probably on Friday, the 13th. F. Parkman '19 is in charge of the arrangements for the game...
...undergraduates who have just been taken into Phi Beta Kappa deserve commendation. They are to be congratulated in having achieved the highest scholastic distinction in the University. Creditable as their work has undoubtedly been, nevertheless, it does not of necessity denote high scholarly distinction. It is, unfortunately, too easy to acquire good standing by learning things by rote, and there are students who gain the highest averages by dint of incessant, unthinking memorizing...
There is one class of men, however, to whom the Phi Beta Kappa key is an incomparable distinction. That is the typo of man who goes out for some undergraduate activity other than pure studies, yet who succeeds in doing excellent work in his lessons. To these men, the Phi Beta Kappa means most. Not merely scholars, not purely athletes, not men whose only achievements have been in literary or social fields, these are the most "all-around" men of the University. He who can succeed at work as well as at play merits the highest approval of his fellow...
Three additional Seniors were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society yesterday, bringing the total for the Class of 1919 to 18, in addition to the "Junior eight". Those elected yesterday are: Joseph Goldman '19, of Boston; Laurence Richardson '19, of Boston; and Louis Edes Ward '19, of Watertown. The names are arranged alphabetically, and not in the order of election...