Word: phi
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...second consecutive year the Boston Latin School, of which P. T. Campbell '93, is head master, has won the Scholarship of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The competition is open to all schools of the United States which prepare not less than seven boys for college. An important aspect of the competition is that the winning school need not send any of its students to Harvard. The offer provides that the award go to that school of which seven graduates as a team attain the highest average on College Board Examinations embracing the four major fields of each...
Among professorial indictments of the modern college student that of Dr. J. Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, is not the least severe. In a speech before the Radcliffe chapter o Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Park declared that crowds whose search for knowledge is merely subordinate to a desire for pleasure, are debauching American institutions of learning. "Comparatively few students are at our American universities for the purpose of scholarship," Le says. And, he adds, efforts to instill a love of learning in, barren minds, are as casting pearls before swine...
This evening, at the 15th anniversary banquet, President Lowell will present the shingle and key to each of the 34 new members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The ceremony will take place at the Union at 6.30 o'clock, after which the meeting will adjourn to the Faculty Room for the annual winter banquet...
After the dinner the assembly will be addressed by some of the foremost scholars of America. Among them will be Bishop William Lawrence '71, President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; Professor Irving Babbitt '89; Professor C. R. Post '04; Professor R. DeC. Ward '89, Chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisers, and President Lowell...
...tenth) of his estate, after death, to Columbia and last week urged, almost demanded that other alumni do the same. Raze. "The women's colleges of this university should be leveled to the ground." So voted the Oxford Union, debating society, last week, 223 to 198. While Phi Beta Kappa men were packing their bags to go to William & Mary where, this week, they celebrate the 150th anniversary of their founding; while majestic little Dr. Henry van Dyke was writing, in Princeton, the speech which he will deliver to his brother Phi Betas, an interesting item appeared...