Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa, held last night in the Union, President Lowell presented keys to the 40 newly-elected members. Of the 40 men elected, 32 are Seniors and eight are Juniors...
...Forty Phi Beta Kappa keys and certificates will be awarded to the recently elected members when the fraternity holds its annual winter banquet this evening at the Union...
Investigations of the Phi Beta Kappa elections for the past five years yield in part the statistical results given above, which are of some significance in view of the change this year. As will readily be seen, the old quota of 45 did not allow all of the Magna and Summa men in a class to be elected to the society. The new quota of 65 however, gives opportunity for the election of all these high honor men, in an ordinary year, since in only one year in the past five have the Magnas and Summas awarded exceeded...
...honored by the society. Since the men elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the end of the Senior year are elected purely on a basis of the divisional award of Magnas and Summas, the Cum members of the society come exclusively from the ranks of those elected before the end of the Senior year, that is, from the men elected on the basis of their course grades. It is, perhaps, significant that of the men so elected, 28 percent were Cum men; and figures not included in the table above show that over half of the Cum men of this...
...possible 45, and in 1928 only 42 in spite of the fact that a large percentage of Magna and Summa men were not chosen. In 1927, that is, instead of the usual 38 percent, 55 percent of the Magna and Summa men were not admitted to Phi Beta Kappa