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...Beta Kappa is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America, founded at William and Mary College in 1776. The University Chapter, which was the first one organized in Massachusetts, was established in 1779, three years after the fraternity had been organized. In the past the University chapter has numbered among its membership such famous men as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Charles William Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Brggs, '75, James Russell Lowell '38, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, and Theodore Roosevelt...
Harvard's Saphora Japonica was brought from Japan 45 years ago, and is said to be the largest and oldest specimen in the country...
Among the special features of the edition will be an anecdotal history of Massachusetts Hall, the oldest University building, which is now being rebuilt as a dormitory and will be ready for occupancy this fall...
...Alcove" is the name of the newest book store on the Square, where Harvard students may purchase the newest and the oldest works of fiction. The Alcove is owned by two students, Leon Sifschitz 1L., and Bernard Pincus '25. Every sort of book is sold except textbooks, and the proprietors intend to make the Alcove a spot where book lovers may browse about to their hearts' content...
...results of such methodical precision startled even the oldest adepts in the game. What to do under given conditions was no longer a simple matter of individual ingenuity. Football had been put through the laboratory and reduced to a science. The contagion of Coach Haughton's magnetic personality, moreover, inspired in his teams a pluckiness and "fight" which made them undaunted in defeat as well as in victory. So successful was his system, that when he resigned, Coach Fisher, who had himself been drilled in the Haughton school, chose to continue...