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...meeting of the undergraduate members of the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa held recently, Porter Ralph Chandler '21 of Geneseo, New York, was elected First Marshal. This honor is awarded each year by the Society to the member of the Senior class whose academic record is the highest...
...This office is also honorary, and is annually awarded to the Recording Secretary except in unusual circumstances. Smith prepared at the Francis W. Parker School, Chicago. If present at the close of the year, the two marshals march at the head of the procession of scholars on Phi Beta Kappa Day, but they have no other duties...
...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, LeBaron 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...
...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...
...subscribers to this agreement, which is printed in its present form in full below, are A. D. Club, Alpha Phi Sigma Club, Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, Argo Club, Delphic Club, Digamma Club, D. U. Club, Fly Club, Iota Club, Iroquois Club, K. G. X. Club, Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Owl Club, Phi Kappa Epsilon Club, Phoenix Club, Pi Eta Society, Porcellian Club, S. A. E. Fraternity, Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity, Spee Club Stylus Club, S. K. Club...