Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superficial. Deep-down, he assures us, Harvard and Yale are the same. Fundamental are the campus credos, "that a fraternity may be childish, but a Senior Society or an Eating Club is sacred . . . that whoever interests himself in progressivism or radicalism probably hasn't bathed for weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow who couldn't make a business success in the boom era, while a prof over forty-five is a harmless oracle . . .", et cetera...
Herman Hagedorn '07 will deliver an Ode to Harvard at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs tomorrow morning, while Robert Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, follows suit at the Phi Beta Kappa exercises in the evening...
...Hagedorn also read a poem during the sesquicentennial exercises of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Chapter in June, 1917. He bases his chief fame on his biographical works, notably on Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood, and William Boyce Thompson; while he is also the author of numerous novels and narrative poems in addition to his shorter verse...
...most distinguished contemporary poet, Professor Hillyer has the distinction of being one of the few speakers at the Tercentenary whose address will not receive advance publication by the University News Office. At present the poet is under contract to the Atlantic Monthly, which also plans to print his Phi Beta Kappa work...
Featuring an oration by Bronislaw Malinowaki and a poem by Robert Hillyer, the Literary Exercises of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa society will be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall. These exercises will be open to the public...