Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There, was a time when the elections to Phi Beta Kappa were quite an arbitrary affair. The twenty men or more in the class who had received the greatest number of As were elected in order of their rank, according to the figures in the College office. No man was considered for election from outside this select group of scholars. For some years to attempt was made to broaden the qualifications for membership and the result was the society narrowed down into a group of men similar to those recently described by President Hadley of Yale as "professional scholars." Another...
...leading article of the September number of the Graduates' Magazine, entitled "On Shakespeare, or What You Will," is the Phi Beta Kappa oration delivered by H. H. Furness '54 in Sanders Theatre last June. In it Mr. Furness comments on the speeches and actions of two of Shakespeare's heroines, and upon the faults of the great writer himself. The last half of the article is devoted to advice on the study of Shakespeare...
...reports of the meetings of the various alumni organizations is given. Following this are reports of spring athletics, chiefly baseball and rowing. An excellent cut of the 1908 crew in its boat and a group picture of the ball team are used to illustrate the reports. The Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1908 "An Ode to the Universities" by Percy W. McKaye '97 and a short poem by F. W. Batchelder '60 complete the issue...
...Beta Kappa Spread, behind Sever Hall, 5 to 7 o'clock...
...Kappa Sigma Spread, Upper Massachusetts, 6 to 8 o'clock...