Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...That over ninety-five per cent commended the arrangement of days suggested, those differing being members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, who desire that their day shall not conflict with the boat race, as it does at present...
Thursday. Phi Beta Kappa Day; Boat Race...
...part of graduates and others. As a result of this feeling a Committee was appointed in June, 1901, to draw up a new programme for Commencement and the events connected with it. The suggestion of the Committee was defective in two respects: it contained a conflict with Phi Beta Kappa Day and the boat race, and in addition provided for a baseball game with Yale on the day of the Yale Commencement, which is impossible. Since the condensation of the traditional Commencement week seems advisable for the convenience of graduates, the following suggestion may be of value...
Saturday-Phi Beta Kappa Day, Senior Class Dinner, Graduate Dinners...
Much of the verse, on the other hand, is graceful, dignified and highly suggestive. "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory," read before the Phi Beta Kappa in 1898, is perhaps the best work in the book. The moral it teaches might be remembered to great advantage today by many of those in quest of the strenuous life. One bit, in a description of a recent Harvard-Yale football game, seems at this time particularly apropos...