Word: phi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...confused mind of many young men. Nothing is worse than uncertainty. Most men will fight best when exactly cognizant of what they must meet. Even be the odds against him, one likes to know the fact. Especially valuable then is an address like the one delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University last June, by William Henry Rawle, M.A., L.L.D. The author is a man of large experience in legal circles. He takes for his subject, "The Case of the Educated Un-employed," It is impossible to give here any of his ideas. But the address...
...student with dishonesty who finds himself guilty of cribbing. Probably but very few of the cribbing class hope thereby to obtain an unfair advantage over their classmates. College honor would surely condemn a man who cribs so as to obtain a scholarship, or to gain a position on the Phi Beta Kappa. Such a motive would mark a man in the estimation of everyone, a thief and hypocrite. Cribbing cannot be prevalent among men who desire to become scholars. The very earnestness of their efforts, and the nobility of their ambition would war against such methods...
...records of the original chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society which was located at William and Mary College have been found. This disposes wholly of the tradition that the organization sprang from a society in Oxford University. Chief Justice Marshall belonged to the original society and Elisha Parmelee brought to New England the charters of the Yale and Harvard chapters.- News...
...chief marshal, Henry S. Russell, marched to the hall. Mr. Choate was the President of the dinner and sat in the middle of the raised platform. At his right sat President Eliot and James Russell Lowell, and at his left, Gov. Robinson and Vice-President Hendrick. The Phi Beta Kappa orator of the morrow, Hon. William H. Rawle, occupied a prominent seat, and notables were as numerous as is usual on such occasions. Well it was that the intellectual repast was of such a high order, for the viands, tho' choice, could be little enjoyed on account of the crowded...
Edward Everett Hale in his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown Tuesday, on "What's the American People," strove to make every scholar realize more fully the difference between the sovereign of America-the people-and the aristocratic and oligarchic sovereigns of the older nations. He said that the old simile by which nations have been described-the pyramid-was not applicable to the United States, that this nation was not one of vast lower classes and small numbers of well to do rulers and leaders, but that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large...