Word: phi
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...likely to be fulfilled it is of course impossible for one not connected with the government of the college to judge. The statement certainly deserves considerable weight from the fact that Mr. Adams is a prominent member of the Board of Overseers and by his recent address before the Phi Beta Kappa has already taken the strongest stand possible in favor of the movement for the abolition of Greek as a requirement for admission. The report made by the committee of the Board of Overseers upon this subject last spring, sometime previous to Mr. Adams' address, it will be remembered...
...debate originating in Mr. Adams' Phi Beta Kappa oration has steadily grown in vigor until now it has enrolled on either side the leading thinkers of the country. It seems to us that there is danger that in the heat of the discussion its true bearings should be lost to sight, and that in the minds of many there should rise the idea that college education and the value thereof was in some way called into question. However hot the debate may be, whatever arguments may be advanced, whichever side may eventually triumph, the great question of the advantages...
...Constitution of the United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa, adopted on the 7th of September, 1882, was to take effect when ratified by fourteen chapters. It was ratified on that day by seven chapters-the Alpha of Vermont, the Betas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Vermont, and the Gamma of New York; by three chapters in October, 1882-the Gammas of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the Epsilon of New York; by six chapters in June, 1883-the Alphas of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York, the Delta and the Zeta of New York; that...
...United States; and in the "American Statesman Series" on Henry Clay, by Carl Schurz and on Patrick Henry, by Prof. Moses Coit Tyler. The edition de luxe of Prof. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads is also promised soon. "Yankee Doodle," the Poem recently read before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, by Robert Grant, and Charles Francis Adams, "College Fetich" have already appeared in pamphlet form...
With Cbarles Francis Adams, Jr., for orator and Robert Grant White for poet, the Phi Beta Kappa programme at Harvard this year promises to lack nothing of solid merit or brilliancy, says the Gazette...