Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...controversy over the value of the Phi Beta Kappa key as a symbol of something more than excellent scholarship appears interminable. Several weeks ago in an article widely commented upon by the press. Mr. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co--expressed his opinion on the subject. He found many move wearers of the key, proportionately, occupying responsible business positions that their less scholastic classmates. This view seemed a convincing refutation of a rather widely held opinion among business men that these who had won high standing in college were not apt to be particularly successful in business...
...just as soon as our Phi Beta Kappa candidates were taking hope that after all there might be something more attendant upon membership in that exclusive society than the mere privilege of dangling another gold charm on the watch chain, along comes Mr. T. W. Slocum. New York financier...
...this era of efficiency, particularly noticeable within the last five years, wearers of the Phi Beta Kappa key no longer hang their heads, mumble self-consciously, fumble with their vest pockets. They are proud to possess the key. They know that the key Has come into its own. Undergraduates have always voted, insincerely, that they would rather win it than a football letter. But only lately have potent business executives preferred to hire P. B. K. men. For example, Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., recently announced the results of a survey showing that...
...class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K. man. His dissent, entitled "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," appearing in the Harvard Advocate, did not bother with statistics. He did not try to prove ; he knew. ' He simply wielded his own bludgeon: "The Phi Beta Kappa men have apparently disappeared, and those who gave little promise in their studies at college seem to keep the Harvard flag flying and have taken important positions in the community...
...Lane entered Harvard in 1877. As an undergraduate he stood high in his studies and achieved the highest of scholastic honors, election to Phi Beta Kappa. Immediately upon his graduation in 1881 he went into the University Library. In 1887 he was appointed assistant librarian, a position which he held for six years. In 1893 he was made librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, where he remained until he was recalled to the University as head librarian...