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...have elections of all kinds; social, athletic and executive, but there is only one of intellectual nature and that is to the Phi Beta Kappa Society...
Intellectual achievement is the one qualification for election to the Society, it is the reward for conscientious labor and for work well done. What the "H" is to the athlete, the Phi Beta Kappa key is to the scholar. Of the two the latter is the greater achievement, as comparatively few men go out for athletics whereas the entire University is eligible to this intellectual Society. The Phi Beta Kappa man wins his laurels by long hours in the Library, by hard, ceaseless labor. He is in training for three and four long years and his honor comes...
...honorary degrees of A. M. and LL.D. were bestowed upon him by Yale University in 1899, and the University of Edinburgh in 1910, respectively. Princeton University also conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1911. Doctor Mott is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a fellow in the Royal Geographic Society...
...order that undergraduates may understand the purposes of Phi Beta Kappa, and the requirements for election to it, the following sketch of the society's history and ideals is pointed...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776, and is the oldest Greek letter society in America. The University chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was established in 1779; its list of members comprises such names as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, James Russell Lowell '38, Charles W. Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, Frederick Jesup Stimson '76, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane '81. The society endeavors to gather the leaders in scholastic attainments from each class, and also to raise the intellectual tone of the entire undergraduate body...