Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probability that all men graduating with Magna cum Laude degrees will henceforth automatically receive Phi Beta Kappa keys was greatly increased last night, when, at the annual meeting of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, it was unanimously voted to form a committee to investigate the advantages of such a change...
...President of the Phi Beta Kappa...
...view of the changes that have been made in the College and the consequent shift of emphasis to the final honors which a man attains, the undergraduate members of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa make the following recommendations as regards the election of members...
...title of Shapley's lecture will be "Fact and Fancy in Cosmogony," and will deal with new theories of astronomical and physical investigation, with particular attention to relativity. Preceding the meeting of Sigma Xi, which is the scientific counterpart of Phi Beta Kappa, the America Association for the Advancement of Science will meet on December 27, at Atlantic City. K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, is secretary of this group. The session will be featured by a symposium on the late Pleistocene and recent changes of level along the North Atlantic Coast...
...possibilities are open to Phi Beta Kappa if it accepts the proposed change. It may decide to elect no Seniors until after the divisional examinations or it may decide to elect ten or twenty Seniors in the fall and as many more as win magnas in June. The first alternative is preferable. It has no important disadvantages, and it has the definite advantage of accepting fully the principle that the work on the divisional examination and on the honors thesis is the most adequate evidence available concerning those qualities of mind upon which election to Phi Beta Kappa ought...