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...deduction is assuredly comforting to the unimpressive multitude. It sounds even better if bolstered by those statistics issued a short time ago by the University of Michigan which proved that Phi Beta Kappa men ten years out of college were earning considerably less money than the average graduate. The logic is inescapable; if your reason storms by 7 you are all done at 11, like the rain in the adage...
There is a good representation of ability at the meetings. Most of the members are college graduates. There are probably more Phi Beta Kappa keys present than in Congress. Many study law on the side. Others are preparing themselves for active politics. So far women have been exclu'ded. Such men as Senator William J. Harris of Georgia, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, Representatives Charles R. Crisp of Georgia, Fritz G. Lanham of Texas, Addison T. Smith of Idaho, Wallace H. White of Maine, have risen from their ranks. The "Little Congress" is not so little...
Some of the new members of the Phi Beta Kappa will be called on to give initiation speeches at the dinner which is to be held tonight at 7 in the Quiet Room of the Union. This is the first of a series of informal dinners which will be held hereafter once a month. At each of these some member of the faculty representing the varied departments will give a talk at each meeting. At the dinner tonight Professor F. W. Taussig '79 will speak...
...revival of an old custom held in abeyance for two years, the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold an informal dinner at 7 o'clock tomorrow in the Quiet Room at the Union. G. G. Dolphin '24 will preside...
After all, individualism, the marked absence of standardization, is the "note" of Harvard. Customs and "values" may change. The undergraduate may come to venerate a Phi Beta Kappa key as much as his father venerates his safe deposit or even his wine-cellar key. Mr. Lamont looks forward to the culminat hour when "a member of the Phi Beta "Kappa Society is more honored among "all men than a member of the victorious football eleven." On that day what a business the Boston department stores will be doing in ascension robes...