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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, individualism, the marked absence of standardization, is the "note" of Harvard. Customs and "values" may change. The undergraduate may come to venerate a Phi Beta Kappa key as much as his father venerates his safe deposit or even his wine-cellar key. Mr. Lamont looks forward to the culminat hour when "a member of the Phi Beta "Kappa Society is more honored among "all men than a member of the victorious football eleven." On that day what a business the Boston department stores will be doing in ascension robes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...school and college to professional school and life, he thought, perhaps, that he had solved his problem. No longer would it be necessary for anxious parents and eminent educators to exhort the youth of the land to earnest study. The figures were plain to behold. The stern portals of Phi Beta Kappa would surely now be thronged by a host of eager applicants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DOCTOR, LAWYER--" | 12/14/1923 | See Source »

...Springfield Central High School of Springfield has won this year for the fourth time the Interscholastic Scholarship Trophy, which the University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa annually awards to the preparatory school whose students make the best average record in the examinations for admission to the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL WINS P. B. K. SCHOLARSHIP TROPHY | 12/8/1923 | See Source »

...University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will held its annual winter dinner for the reception of new members this evening at 6.30 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union. Following the dinner will be the ceremony of precenting to the newly elected 22 Seniors and S Juniors their keys and shingles. President Lowell will make the presentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL WILL PRESENT KEYS AT P. B. K. BANQUET TONIGHT | 12/4/1923 | See Source »

...Coolidge, along with Messrs. William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson, was made Honorary Governor General of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims; the President donned cap and gown and was initiated into the John Adams Senate, Boston University Chapter, of Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity at the White House in the presence of 200 members of that organization in similar garments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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