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Today the membership of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has grown considerably from the approximately 16 members from each class who were selected to the Society in the years shortly after its founding...
Realizing that at Harvard the competition for Phi Beta Kappa honors is heavier than at some other colleges, the Cambridge Chapter has increased its membership so that now ten per cent of each class is elected to the Society. An elite inner core has been maintained, however, by means of the three different stages at which one can be elected...
...student, in which each man is given a numerical grade representing his marks in all courses taken at the University. Final emphasis is not placed, however, on marks alone. According to Philip Levine `39, assistant professor of the Classics and Graduate Secretary of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, it is not merely an impersonal academic record that is studied, but rather "the quality of the mind of the individual...
...history of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard has been one of development from the fraternity which met regularly at Porter's Tavern in the early years of the 19th century to the more formal honors society of today...
Curtis notes that the former marked overlap between the membership of Phi Beta Kappa and that of the Porcellian Club was suddenly discontinued after this momentous event. And his analysis of the price of the Society dinner reveals that before 1846 each member of the chapter must have consumed the equivalent of "a bottle of Madeira, a bottle of Sherry, and two bottles of Port...