Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has made an intelligent move in formulating a plan to elect to the Society all men who receive degrees magna cum laude. If the plan is accepted, as it certainly ought to be, it will quiet much of the criticism of Phi Beta Kappa and it will add correspondingly to the Society's prestige...
...public recognition of merit is as impossible in the academic sphere as it is in the world at large. Nevertheless, any formal recognition which obviously falls short of a reasonable degree of justice is bound to lose much of its meaning. This has been the case with Phi Beta Kappa elections. The award of Phi Beta Kappa keys based wholly or mainly on course grades has rightly, been criticized, for course grades are a superficial criterion of intellectual capacity. It is recognized that general examinations and honors theses are far more adequate tests of intelligent scholarship than course examinations...
Meeting on the one hundred and fifty-first anniversary of the founding of the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, the Harvard chapter will hold its annual banquet and initiation in Kirkland House next Monday evening. A business meeting will precede the banquet, at which important changes in the election rules of the Society will be considered...
Speakers at the dinner, announced yesterday by G. H. Chase '96, president of the Harvard chapter, will be President Lowell, W. A. Shimer '18, general secretary of Phi Beta Kappa, and T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. President Lowell will present keys to the 40 men who were elected to the Society last Friday. The meeting Wednesday will be the first ever held in a House, former banquets having been held in Memorial Hall and the Union...
...election of eight Juniors and 32 Seniors to the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was announced yesterday by Richard Inglis '33, Second Marshal of the Society. Initiation of new members will take place at the annual banquet on Monday, December 5, commemorating the 151st anniversary of the founding of Phi Beta Kappa...