Word: phi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years before our Natural History Society was started by members of the classes of '37 and '38, there was founded at Williams College a secret society, Phi Beta Theta, which soon changed its title and became as the Williams Lyceum of Natural History, a society for the study of natural science. It is the oldest college scientific society in America and will be represented in the course of lectures the Harvard Society is giving by Dr. Samuel F. Clarke, professor of biology at Williams, the lecturer of to-night...
...public exercises of the fifty-fifth annual convention of the Alpha Delta Phi were held last evening in Tremont Temple. The labor question was the subject of discussion. Addresses were delivered by Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Joshua L. Chamberlain, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt and Professor James B. Thayer. A number of invited quests were present, and the exercises passed off very successfully. The committee of the Harvard chapter which had the matter in charge were Henry W. Keyes, Frederic S. Coolidge, Herbert D. Hale, Charles F. Adams, 2d, and James Mott Hallowell...
...following are the officers of the '88 Phi Beta Kappa: Secretary, E. R. Thayer; first marshall, R. B. Mahany; second marshall, E. A. Harriman...
Somewhat of a sensation was created in the University by the announcement of the formation of a secret society in the Law School. A chapter of Phi Delta Phi has been established, to be known as the Waite Chapter, in honor of Chief Justice M. R. Waite, '37. The fraternity is confined to the legal profession, and its purpose is to assist its members towards success in business...
...recent Phi Beta Kappa elections at Harvard, seventeen men were appointed from '87 and eight from '88. Class stand did not alone determine the choice, but athletic and literary proficiency was taken into consideration. According to the New York Tribune, one was drawn as being the best roator, two because of their poetical ability, and a fourth owing to his success as a boxer. - Yale News...