Word: phi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Alpha Delta Phi Prof. James B. Thayer of the Harvard Law School responded to the toast, "The public service, - a trust and not a perquisite." His was a brief speech, alluding with facetiousness to his proposed trip to Greece and his mission to plant colonies of Alpha Delta Phi along the coasts of the Mediterranean. The Rev. Edward G. Porter of Lexington was introduced as a representative of the Harvard Chapter. He told of the perennial power of the fraternity, and of the life-long allegiance which the members owe to it. Men of all the educated...
...dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi, Rev. E. E. Hale, to illustrate his point that men of wide reputation in letters may be of really better material than men who may be more proficient in studies, told of a letter which was written by a friend of James Russell Lowell to an acquaintance in Europe in the year of Lowell's graduation. He wrote that James Lowell had fallen in his studies and the facuty were rather down on him, but the boys liked him and had chosen him class poet, and that Lowell's father had said, "Oh, dear...
...annual dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi society was held last night in Boston. The Alpha Delta Phi is the oldest and one of the most honorable of the college Greek-letter societies. Established in 1832, it celebrated its semi-centennial last year. It is established in about twenty of the leading colleges of the country, and numbers among its members who take an active part in the society, some of the most prominent clergymen, lawyers, professors, journalists, and other professional men in the country. The annual dinners attract large numbers of members, of whom there are more than...
...Edward Everett Hale has been selected as the annual orator before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University, at its meeting on June 19 next...
...annual dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi Society takes place in Boston tonight...