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With the time of election to the Phi Beta Kappa approaching, the Society has recently given out several amendments to the Constitution along with a brief history of the Society. The statement follows...
...Beta Kappa is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America, founded in 1776 at William and Mary College. The Harvard chapter is the Alpha chapter of Massachusetts and was established in 1779, three years after the organization of the fraternity. In the past such men have belonged to the chapter as Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Charles W. Eliot '53, Le Baron Russell Briggs '75, James Russell Lowell '38, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Frederick J. Stimson '76, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane...
...enough to cast a definite shadow, threatening perhaps to the Freshman or transfer student. These men who scarcely yet know where they stand, and those others who know only too well the precarious footing of a C--may find some comfort in the aid offered by the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau...
While the Phi Beta Kappa Bureau can be of immediate service in preparation for the hour exams, its aid need not terminate there. It has planned to work in co-operation with the Student Advisory system, which is functioning this year more efficiently than ever before, in reaching throughout the year students who fight for a high C from Hour to Hour...
Students who forsee disaster in the coming hour examinations or those who for any reason desire aid in a study need no longer go with their wants unsatisfied, for professional assistance, willingly given and free, can be had by applying to F. E. Bowman '24 of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the Crimson building on Plympton Street between 1.30 and 3.30 o'clock today or tomorrow...