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...University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold its annual winter banquet in the Union on Monday, December 5, at 6.30 o'clock. Professor F. W. Taussing '79, President of the chapter, will preside, and President Lowell will speak. Tickets for the dinner will be sold for $2.50 at the Union, or may be procured from the corresponding secretary, Professor W. G. Howard '07, at 39 Kirkland street, Cambridge. Members of other chapters who are now in the University can secure tickets by applying to the corresponding secretary...
Members of the chapter have been requested to consider the question of changing the date of the second annual June exercises, since graduates and invited guests coming from a distance find it difficult to include both Phi Beta Kappa Day and Commencement in their plans. All members should express by the mailing cards sent out their wishes in the matter. If a change is desired, and there is a substantial majority in favor of a specified day, the anniversary meeting of 1922 will be appointed for that date...
Such unwarranted favoritism must impress those Phi Beta Kappa men to whom the principle of equal opportunity appeals with the feeling that disparity of this kind is both gross and unfair. Surely, they say, an intellectual society ought not to be subjugated to such humiliation nor be so undervalued. Fortunately, as the hero of this incident points out, for every problem there is a solution. In order that Phi Beta Kappa may enjoy equally with other organizations the respect of the law, let the first forty policemen of every city be elected to membership. Immediately a brotherly affection will spring...
...order that undergraduates, especially Freshmen, may understand the purposes of Phi Beta Kappa and the requirements for election to it, the following sketch of the history and ideals of the society is printed...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776 and is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America. The Harvard chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, established in 1779, comprises such men among its members as Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, James Russell Lowell '38, Charles W. Eliot '53, Le Baron Russell Briggs '75, Frederick J. Stimson '76, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane '81. The society endeavors to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments, and also by the example and activity of this group of scholars...