Word: kappas
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Fish Market. Son of a wealthy Manhattan family (merchants and philanthropists). Coffin went to Yale ('97, Skull and Bones, Phi Betta Kappa, now a fellow of Yale's Corporation), studied further in Scotland and Germany. Back in the U.S. he went to Union, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1900. His first parish was a room over a Bronx fish market. There he preached "damnation with the Cross in it," displayed such zeal that his congregation vowed the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish...
...Week's festivities will begin at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, May 26, with the Phi Beta Kappa exercises in Fogg Museum's Large Lecture Hall. Class Day Exercises, including the tradition-reeking Class Oration, Poem and Ode in the House Triangle in the afternoon. The Senior Spread will take place in Lowell House Wednesday evening, preceded by a buffet supper in Kirkland House...
...Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual Commencement program on Wednesday, May 26, at 11 o'clock, in the Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. The meeting will be open to the public, and tickets may be obtained for reserved seats from Reginald H. Phelps '30, Assistant Dean in charge of records and Corresponding Secretary of the Society...
Chessmaster. On the checkered face of the world, Times correspondents are chessmen. Chessmaster is short, stocky 53-year-old Edwin L. (for Leland) James, a veteran foreign reporter himself. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Virginia's Randolph-Macon College, he worked for papers in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Albany, came to the Times...
Although the assembly in Sanders Theatre was intended to be not merely for men affiliated with Sigma Xi, and considered strictly open, a special invitation was extended to College members of Phi Beta Kappa. It is expected that this meeting of the two honorary societies will encourage future relations...