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Powerful Symbol. In those 175 years, the gold key of PBK has become a powerful symbol in U.S. education. Though most off-campus Americans pretend not to care much about it, most know what it is. Those who wear it can be as different as Franchot Tone and Senator Paul Douglas, as Paul Robeson and Senator Robert Taft, as Byron ("Whizzer") White and Helen Wills Moody. But they all have one thing in common: they got good marks in college...
Over the years, hundreds of members have also earned good marks after college. In its first 70 years, PBK added only six chapters; but by that time its reputation had already spread all over the U.S. When Harvard's chapter gave a dinner in 1824, Lafayette was there. At the Harvard meeting of 1833, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the poet; in 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the orator and delivered his famous plea for the liberation of the American scholar ("Our intellectual Declaration of Independence!" cried PBK's Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. "Our Yankee version of a lecture...
...PBK Exercises...
Besides the PBK literary exercises, which are open to the public, students can also attend the Senior Spread in Lowell House Courtyard on Monday evening, Class Day exercises in Sever Quadrangle the following afternoon, and the Senior Moonlight Cruise on Tuesday evening...
...PBK Member...