Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Monday, June 16, Phi Beta Kappa...
...Business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Harvard Hall...
...cornerstone of the new Harry Elikins Widener Memorial Library will be laid on the morning of Phi Beta kappa Day, June 16, at 11 o'clock. President Lowell will preside. Professor Coolidge of the History Department, Director of the University Library, will make a few remarks and an address will be delivered by Hon. Joseph Francis Swayze, President of the Phi Beta kappa Society of Massachusetts...
...Committee on Secondary Schools which discloses some interesting facts concerning Harvard. In making the investigation the Committee selected a group of 292 men in the classes of 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913, representing the most prominent men in each class, such as class officers, athletes, editors, Phi Beta Kappa men, student councillors, etc. It was found that these class leaders came from every part of the country. While 103 of the 292 were from Massachusetts, the proportion of these 103 men to all the men from that state in college was much smaller than that of New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri...
...note the absence of names of men of athletic fame in the past, and to reflect upon the significance of it. Then the more intellectual clubhouses might be made to rival in attractiveness the more social. why should one climb a tower to enjoy Phi Beta Kappa when he can luxuriate in the Varsity Club's happy proximity to mother earth? There is, further, the feeling that advertising will help solve the problem. The names of athletes are club house hold words; cannot something be achieved by posting the names of students with honor grades? The faculty also comes...