Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Northwestern's child prodigies, who were selected in a blaze of glory and then carefully cloaked from vulgar inquiry, have come once more, and in a very fitting manner, to the attention of all. The senior of their number, now seventeen, has just been elected to Phi-Beta Kappa, with a truly prodigious grade average and amid appropriate eclat. Northwestern seems to feel that this vindicates the essential wisdom of her experiment, and even Dr. Flexner declares that he is reminded of his old dream of a prodigy high school in New York...
...strings upon which captious critics of our college system delight to play is the uselessness of the national honor society. It is alleged that brilliant achievement in the arts and sciences implies a social responsibility, which Phi Beta Kappa has never adequately shouldered. It will be remembered that in the publication which the society inaugurated last year, its leaders promised to break their long silence, and speak to a confused world with the authority which attends recognized ability. The world economic situation was analyzed in its several phases, national discussion of a quiet kind was provoked, and then the society...
...announcement of plans for the organization of an alumni society of Phi Beta Kappa in Boston, aimed at the development of liberal scholarship, indicates that a very real need may be filled. The founders declare that our day requires "a philosophy of education which will prevent youth from being in a hurry to grow up." This, and similar crusades, Phi Beta Kappa will endeavor to formulate and to popularize...
This new step should supplement the American scholar in presenting the work of Phi Beta kappa to the world. It can scarcely be denied that whatever constructive movements may have been furthered individually by its members, the casual character of its alumni organization has made it difficult to assess the productivity of the society as a whole. The lack of emphasis upon the social features of its collegiate branches, in itself appropriate, has had the result of leaving it heterogeneous and disunified. It is to be hoped that this alumni fusion will facilitate important collective contributions to intellectual activity. Certainly...
Shuebruk prepared at Cohasset High and Exeter, and is a resident of Lowell House. Hatfield prepared at Evanston High and lives in Dunster House. Both are members of the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society...