Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday at the Phi Beta Kappa meeting Mr. Paul Shorey tried modern culture and found it dull. Americans are sexually inept, poets are crude, intellectually the country is dead. As a solace from this tedious period Mr. Shorey looked not to a refreshing dawn in the future, but preferred to gaze longingly at the roseate sunset of a halycon past. Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, and Emerson are the foundations of American culture the men to whom their countrymen must point with pride...
...detailed study of the American past avails nothing, if it is not put to some constructive use in the future. All this Mr. Shorey neglected while betraying his quite natural affection for the good old days. Granting the speaker that modern culture is a barren wasteland, Phi Beta Kappa men should not be advised to eschew it for the more pleasant task of literary research. They should be urged only to insert their keys in the doors that will open more pleasant avenues of thought and culture...
...noon today in Sanders Theatre a distinguished group of nearly 500 persons will meet to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and to conduct initiation ceremonies for the group of 40 undergraduates, 32 seniors and eight juniors, who were recently elected to membership in the society. The poem, oration, and other ceremonies will commence at 12 o'clock. The second gallery is open to the public, and there will be no admission charge...
...chapter at the University of North Carolina, where he was an undergraduate. Kjellesvig, who receives his key today, is a student in the Harvard Medical School. That there will be no conferring of honorary memberships was also made known. The 'shingles', facsimile photographs of the original Harvard Phi Beta Kappa charter of 1779, signed by Justice Wait and Professor Howard will be distributed to the new men later in the year...
...only other activity of these "immediate members" (except for the recently revived baseball game with the Yale chapter) is the undergraduate tutoring bureau, founded in 1914-15, through which students who need help in their studies are advised free of charge. Thus the present status of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard is that of an all-but-honorary society. Because each year some of the twenty-two seniors elected in the fall receive their degrees only cum laude, while a number of men who are awarded a magna cum laude at commencement cannot be taken into the fraternity on account...