Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston Latin's Trophy Sirs: May I inform the managing editor of The Exonian, through your columns, that the Boston Public Latin School for Boys has received the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University for permanent possession rather than Phillips Exeter Academy...
Sirs: I was surprised to see on p. 2 of your issue of June 29 a letter entitled "No Lead Shot," in which the Managing Editor of The Exonian asserts that "Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University, in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered." I should like to say that on the Head Master's mantle rests the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Trophy, which was won by the Lawrenceville School in 1930. Exeter won this in 1929. If the winning of the Phi Beta...
Your article entitled "Exeter's 150th" in the issue of June 15 was decidedly off-color (if you will pardon me for saying so) in many respects. For your own benefit Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered. This would seem to prove that Exeter is more "potent scholastically" than other schools of its kind, despite your contention to the contrary...
...Monday morning at 11.30 o'clock the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual meeting. The literary exercises in Sanders Theatre, to which the public is invited, will be preceded by a business meeting to be held in Emerson Hall at 10 o'clock. At the Sanders Theatre exercises, the oration will be given by Professor J. H. Beale, and the poet of the society will be Professor Odell Shepard; judge W. C. Wait '82 will preside. A dinner to the society will be served to the--society at 1 o'clock in the Union...
...these answers seem to hear out the contention that the modern undergraduate is a pretty sophisticated young man and at the same time perhaps a bit more serious in his studies--if we may accept the yearning for a Phi Bta Kappa key as genuine--other votes would indicate that he has changed little. We refer to his attitude, of all things, toward poetry. In 1921 his favorite poets were Kipling, Tennyson and Browning; in 1931 they are Browning, Kipling and Tennyson. Ten years ago he voted "If" his favorite poem, followed by Gray's "Elegy"; today he does...