Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor is Grace Anna Goodlove Coolidge. Before her. Mrs. Hayes, a graduate of Wesleyan Female College at Cincinnati, and Mrs. Cleveland, a graduate of Wells College at Auburn, N. Y., were college women. But Mrs. Coolidge is a graduate of the University of Vermont, 1902, and a Pi Beta Phi. In fact she is a charter member of her chapter which was organized in her home. (The President is a Phi Gamma Delta of Amherst...
...Treasury, who had tendered his resignation, consented to remain in office, and assume the duties of Acting Secretary of the Treasury until his superior returned from abroad. This invited attention to a " boy wonder "; for Mr. Gilbert is only 30. Eleven years ago he began to dangle his Rutgers Phi Beta Kappa key. Three years later he took his law degree at Harvard cum laude. Even in 1918 he was only a minor official in the Treasury Department at Washington...
...student is such because he "must"-his simple doom is to be scholarly. Without coming to blows with the venerable Bostonian, it is possible to point out that he is, unfortunately, quite wrong. It is as possible to be a great halfback because one must as to be a Phi Beta Kappa man for like reasons. There once was a race of people known as the Greeks-but Quadwrangler knows all about them. He merely forgets...
Christopher Morley, famed colyumist: "Ten sonnets, fourteen lines each, I wrote, and read before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. My text? 'The herb, Lunaria, ceremoniously gathered at set times, laid upon any lock it makes it flie open...
...members and guests of the University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will assemble at its annual meeting in Sanders Theatre at 11.30 o'clock this morning, when the customary literary exercises will be held...