Word: phi
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Henry Traugott Dunker '25, of Davenport, lowa, president of the Student Council, veteran football guard, captain of the track team, and member of Phi Beta Kappa, has been awarded the Francis H. Burr Scholarship, it was announced last night. The scholarship is offered in memory of Francis H. Burr '09, for the senior who combines as nearly as possible Burr's remarkable qualities of character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability...
...activities. Last year he competed in England as a member of the combined Yale-Harvard track team against Oxford and Cambridge. For three years he has been a regular guard on the football team, and was one of the first eight men in his class to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa, in the Junior year. In all his college studies Dunker has received only one grade lower than "A", that being a "B". He received "A's" in six full courses and in 11 half courses...
...first meeting of members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society held in Dean Greenough's office Wednesday night resulted in the election of Henry Traugott Dunker '25 of Davenport, Iowa, as first marshal and Howard Parker Sharp '25 of Pittsburg, Pa, as second marshal, Mr. Sharp is at present the secretary of the society. The marshals will be in charge of the various meetings during the year...
...held in December and during the year other dinners are held in the Society's rooms, prominent members of the faculty being invited as guests and speakers. The graduate members of the fraternity also held several dinners during the year. Monday of Commencement Week is set aside as Phi Beta Kappa Day, and is the occasion for literary exercises which are always of first rank in scholarly value. Such men as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow '59 (hon.), have read poems at these meetings. There have been addresses and orations by many prominent...
...Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America, founded at William and Mary College in 1776. The University Chapter, which was the first one organized in Massachusetts, was established in 1779, three years after the fraternity had been organized. In the past the University chapter has numbered among its membership such famous men as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Charles William Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Brggs, '75, James Russell Lowell '38, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, and Theodore Roosevelt...