Word: phi
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...literary committee of the Phi Beta Kappa Society consisting of Professor L. B. R. Briggs '75, F. C. Lowell '76, Josiah Quincy '80, W. C. Lane '81, G. R. Carpenter '86, and E. R. Thayer '88, have appointed the orator and the poet for the annual exercises of the society in Sanders Theatre next June. The exercises this year will be held on June 30. The orator appointed is Rev. William Jewett Tucker. In this case the appointment has fallen on a man outside of the Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Tucker was not a graduate of Harvard. He graduated from...
...appointments have been given this year - 13 more than any preceding class has received. 20 men hold either Philosophical or High Orations, and thus become members of the Phi Beta Kappa. Of these eight are New England men, five of them from the Hartford High School. It is noticeable that none of the Phi Beta Kappa orations are held by men from Andover, Exeter, or St. Paul's, which are Yale's largest preparatory schools...
...Edwin Arnold is to lecture at Wesleyan Jan. 25 in the Alpha Delta Phi course...
...social way he was well-known, being an early member of the Institute of 1770, of the Hasty Pudding and Delta Phi Clubs. After graduation, he gave himself up to business in Boston. His health became unsettled and early in the autumn he went to a health resort near Seneca Lake, N. Y., where he died...
...Hill delivered addresses before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard on "Liberal Education" (1858), and on "The Opportunities of Life" at Antioch (1860). He edited Eberty's "The Stars and the Earth" (1849), and published "Christmas, and Poems on Slavery" (1843), "Geometry and Faith" (1849), "First Lessons in Geometry" (1854), "Second Book In Geometry" (1862), "Jesus, the Interpreter of Nature, and Other Sermons" (1859), "Practical Arithmetic" (1881), and contributions to numerous periodicals, mathematical and astronomical journals, and religious newspapers...