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Earlier this week, the national academic honor society phi Beta Kappa announced that it had elected 48 seniors to its Harvard chapter...
...Beta Kappa bases its selections on GPA and faculty recommendations. No more than 10 percent of any class may receive the honor...
These 48 students were part of the second round of Phi Beta Kappa elections for the Class of 1999. Twenty-four students were elected in the first round this spring. All will officially become members of the chapter in a formal ceremony...
Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 address to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society bears serious consideration by today's Harvard students. The address is an encomium to the title-less man and an attack on the institutional one. It is praise for those famous men who become famous of their own doing, who arrive at their own conclusions, who stand on feet unbuttressed by typical modes of external recognition...
Members of the MIT fraternity Gamma Kappa Sigma requested a license change that would increase the number of members allowed to live in their house from 39 to 47. The fraternity also requested that an undergraduate be able to serve as their resident advisor instead of a graduate student as is currently required by the city...