Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Phillips Exeter Academy and throughout his career was very prominent in college activities. Besides being president of the Monthly and an officer in the Dramatic Club, he was the winner of the Matthews Scholarship for three years and the Bowdoin prize. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Student Council and several social clubs...
...That all undergraduate publications, the Dramatic Club, the Musical Clubs, the Pierian Sodality, and the Phi Beta Kappa, publish, written three weeks after the beginning of the college year, a definite statement of their aim, the work required of candidates and the conditions of election to membership...
Three men from the Senior class have been elected additional members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Two more members will be chosen later in the year after the Commencement Honors have been announced...
...provision in the constitution of the Phi Beta Kappa Society under which these men were elected reads as follows: "In order to meet exceptional cases where persons have shown distinguished excellence in scholarship, but have failed, for reasons not affecting their good characters to come within the requirements of section 5 (which describes the procedure in the first elections), the immediate members may elect additional persons from their own class not exceeding five in number...
...most successful and most distinguished Harvard playwrights, Knoblauch, of '96, although he won no scholastic distinction, was well known to all who knew him as a deep and thorough student of the drama. Edward Sheldon, of 1908, took his degree magna cum laude, and is in the Phi Beta Kappa. William Vaughn Moody, '93, author of "The Great Divide", which has many claims to be the best play ever written in America, took his degree magna cum laude, gained honorable mention in English, and was in the Phi Beta Kappa. Of the three men from different colleges now most prominently...