Word: phi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advertiser comments on the situation as follows : "The accounts of the Harvard-Yale game were published almost simultaneously with the remarks of Dr. Howard Crosby before the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in New York, in the course of which he attacked the abnormal growth and degeneracy of college athletics, and it is contended at Harvard that a more curious commentary on his speech could not have been found than an impartial and full description of that game. Dr. Crosby protests against the injurious training, the intense partizanship, the large expenditures and the encouragement given to betting and other rowdy accompaniments...
...Howard Crosby, in an address on "The Errors of our Collegiate Institutions," before the Phi Beta Kappa alumni, in New York, Thursday evening, said in concluding his remarks: "The only other mistake common to our colleges to which I will now refer, is the fostering of boat clubs and ball clubs. That young men should in time of relaxation go out on the green and have a good game of ball, or should go down to the river and have a row, is most natural and commendable, but that they should form clubs for training, and spend months...
...following short sketch of the recent meetings of the famous Phi Beta Kappa is from the College Mercury...
...spring of 1881 the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa invited the other chapters to send delegates to attend the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of its establishment, and to empower such delegates to constitute themselves a convention to represent the society. A majority of the chapters responded to the invitation, and the delegates met at Cambridge on the 30th of June, 1881. Some discussion was had upon the condition of the society, and upon the possibility of bringing the chapters into closer relations than had existed. The institution of a permanent representative body was suggested. The delegates...
...World is pleased to state that Mr. Carl Schurz is to enlighten the callow youth of Harvard as to the relation between railroad lobbies and civil service reform. The description of the scholarly members of the Phi Beta Kappa (including so many of the professors and graduates of the university) as "callow youth," is as impudent as it is amusing...