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Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa softball team plays Yale PBK at the Soldiers Field house softball diamond at 2:30 p.m. today...
...traditional "grudge game" will be played rain or shine. Last year Harvard took a drubbing from the Yale nine, 18-0. With the eight newly-elected PBK Juniors in key spots, Crimson hopes to reverse last year's defeat...
High Standard. At Yale, Eli Whitney won a key, and Chemist Benjamin Silliman bitterly complained about PBK's bibulous anniversary meetings ("After such surfeits, I am always sick"). In 1818, South Carolina College at Columbia applied for a charter, sent it to the Secretary of War, PBK's John C. Calhoun, who in turn sent it to the Secretary of State, PBK's John Quincy Adams. Adams was the first presidential member. Those who came after him: Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt* and William Howard Taft...
Today, from its permanent headquarters in Williamsburg, PBK rules over 151 chapters and 120,000 living members. It still does not recognize non-liberal-arts colleges, even such famed ones as M.I.T., and it still wields no direct power over academic affairs, even on campuses where it has chapters. But in 175 years of dangling its golden key, PBK has set a high standard for U.S. students, and by its very existence has persuaded hundreds to raise their intellectual sights...
...Franklin Roosevelt, an indifferent student at Harvard, was made an honorary member of PBK in 1929. Other honorary PBKs: Presidents Pierce, Hayes, Garfield, Wilson, Coolidge (who also got their keys as graduates); Presidents Van Buren and Cleveland (who never went to college) and President Truman (who had two years at Kansas City Law School...