Word: phi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...PHI BETA KAPPA.This society was first introduced into this country about the year 1776, in which year a charter was granted to the college of William and Mary of Virginia. The society quickly extended to Harvard, and a chapter was founded there in 1781. The object of the society was the promotion of literature and friendly intercourse among scholars, but only those students who obtained a high rank were admitted. The motto of the society is "Philosophia, Biou Kubernetes," or "Philosophy, the Guide of Life." The Phi Beta Kappa now has chapters in very nearly every college of note...
...Phi Beta Kappa society was founded at Williams and Mary College...
...members of Theta Delta Phi, to which fraternity Edward F Dillon of Dartmouth College, a victim of the railroad accident, belonged, and delegations from his class and the college at large, attended Dillon's funeral at Springfield, Vt., yesterday...
...Choate Law Club, of the Law School, has become the Choate Chapter of the Phi Delta Phi Fraternity...
...Hayes, instructor of elocution at Harvard goes on Tuesday to Cornell, where he held a professorship last year, to give a course of readings. On Wednesday night he will be given a dinner by the faculty, and on Thursday night the Phi Upsilon members of whom Mr. Hayes is one, will give him a reception in the fine Chapter building...