Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tristram Coffin and the Honorable Charles Warren '89 will be poet and orator, respectively, at the annual spring exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, it was announced yesterday by W. G. Howard '07, professor of German, and secretary of the Harvard chapter of the Society...
...married again, began to lecture at the popular lyceums of his day. In 1837 he delivered the annual oration of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge. "The American Scholar" was his theme. "The older faces grew grimmer with every word, while the younger lighted up with eager approval. This speaker had come to bring not peace but a sword, and the words he uttered today were to mark the birth of another generation." His somewhat startling fame soon attracted disciples, friends. Margaret Fuller came, then Thoreau; between them The Dial was published. For four years it printed their works...
...their meals with them. The associates, however, have done little or nothing for the House except attend occasional high table dinners. The students probably represent a good "cross-section", although they tend to be studious, as witnessed by the fact that of the forty men elected to Phi Beta Kappa last autumn, Lowell claims eleven...
...survey of a recent class shows that as much as 45 per cent of those elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the fall of the senior year were able to achieve only a cum laude at graduation. Of the junior eight of the same class, two or 25 per cent received honors. This condition exists either because men are incapable of writing theses and relating the subjects in their fields; or because they are satisfied with themselves after they have received their keys and have no ambition to attain further honors. In either case, their election to the society...
...solution would be for the Phi Beta Kappa Society to withhold its elections until more evidence of a man's worth is available. If, for instance, the Junior eight were selected at the end of the third year rather than at the beginning, and all others at the same time of graduation, judgments would be more sure. Then the honor would be awarded after men have shown how well they can relate and make use of the facts they have gained from their courses and tutorial work and thus be more representatives...