Word: phi
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following twenty-two Seniors and eight Juniors have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Scholarly achievement and scholarly promise have been the basis of election, and a conscientious attempt has been made to do justice to every eligible name. In determining the elections, scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate grounds for decision; the difficulty of courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also received due consideration. The names are arranged alphabetically and not according to order of election...
Some time ago we said in this column that of all undergraduate honors the only one that grows greater with age is election to Phi Beta Kappa. That is why we congratulate the men who have been awarded that honor. They have won recognition in that for which a university stands. Now they must strive to maintain the standards set for them by Emerson, Holmes, Everett and the long line of earlier scholars of Harvard Phi Beta Kappa. The voice of respect with which these names are spoken indicates the honor in which the men are held...
...direct care of a properly qualified personal trainer or physical adviser who would direct his daily life, building him up physically as his instructors endeavor to do intellectually. Under such conditions would not the product be improved? Would not the high rank men, the class poets and orators, the Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude men, be more influential in after life as leaders than they are now? The scholar, they young man intellectually gifted, should not be an unhealthy weakling developed only on the side of his nervous system. It is a fact recognized by physicians that...
Professor George Grafton Wilson, chief lecturer at the Naval College and instructor at Harvard University in International Law will be the speaker at the regular weekly meeting of Phi Beta Kappa in the south tower of Memorial Hall this evening at 6 o'clock. Last year Professor Wilson was exchange professor from Harvard to the Sorbonne in Paris...
...summary of the purposes of Phi Beta Kappa and of its requirements for membership, printed elsewhere, is not a call for candidates; it is merely an out line of a society for which men of the right sort do not have to be called out. Nevertheless, Phi Beta Kappa is worthy of the most serious thought of every underclassman. In thinking of it each man should remember that of all undergraduate honors the only one that increases with time is election to an honorary society of scholars...