Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...heartily approve of publicity in regard to Phi Beta Kappa. Far too few underclassmen realize what membership in the society implies. But the CRIMSON holds that the cause of this ignorance lies rather with the rules of admission to the Harvard chapter than in a unique indifference on the part of Harvard underclassmen. To be eligible for the Chapter during freshman and Sophomore year and to establish a fixed standard which, if attained, insures admission, would prove two very powerful agents toward informing newcomers that Phi Beta Kappa exists...
Under the present rules such a situation as is outlined in the first paragraph of this morning's article is only too frequent. For the man just entering college, Phi Beta Kappa is over two years away. During that time the candidate has at best a vague idea of his chances for the junior Eight. Neither of these facts tends to keep up his interest in what should be one of the most popular competitions is College...
Under this new amendment it is hoped to arrange the days of Commencement week somewhat as follows: Monday, Phi Beta Kappa Day; Tuesday, Class Day; Wednesday, class dinners; Thursday, Commencement Day; Friday, the boat race. The Yale baseball game in Cambridge will probably be played on the day before or the day after Class...
...will read with a tingle of excitement the first article in the magazine: Professor Royce's Phi Beta Kappa oration on "James as a Philosopher." It is exhilarating to discover a tribute to life, instead of the usual dull summary of dead perfections. Where the criticism is keenest it is most flattering to the distinguished philosopher whose death we have all recently lamented, and Professor James would himself have been the first to relish the candor of this study, as he would have been the first to disparage his own eminence as its subject. If Professor James embodies the American...
...Sweetser '11 was elected the fifth honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa from the class...