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Resuming an old annual custom the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will do its utmost to down its ancient rivals, Yale's Phi Beta Kappas, on the Freshman baseball diamond at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The Crimson aggregation held its first practice yesterday afternoon. A report from New Haven states that the Eli nine has been practicing some time to avenge the defeat it suffered at the hands of its hosts in Cambridge two years...
...Edwin Francis Gay LL.D. '18 has accepted the invitation of the officers of the Graduate Committee of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to deliver the oration at the P. B. K. Day exercises to be held in Sanders Theatre at 11.30 on Friday, June 22. Mr. Christopher Morley has been chosen poet and Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery '91 chaplain for the ceremony. Judge Robert Grant '73, president of the Harvard Chapter, will preside...
...Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, an honorary engineering society corresponding to the Phi Beta Kappa in colleges of liberal arts was established and chartered at the Engineering School last night. For over a year the School has been petitioning for a charter. It is the third chapter to be founded in Massachusetts, the Alpha chapter being at the Worcester Polytechnical School and the Beta chapter at Technology. The Fraternity which has headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., is especially strong in the Middle West...
...have had much to do with college men, and carry several degrees and a much prized Phi Beta Kappa membership from William and Mary College. So I am deeply interested in colleges as intellectual centers and as factors in our national life. They are often under fire--the faculties are always too conservative or too radical; the courses too abstract or too forward in the eyes of critics. To me the defect is rather in the student than in the instructor. I mean by this that the tendencies in most American institutions of learning is for the student...
...same election the class voted by 102 to 34, the largest majority on record, that a Phi Beta Kappa key was more desirable than a regular "D", The Seniors considered that the Outing Club had done more for the college than any other institution...