Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, held at Lowell House last night, sixteen seniors were elected to the honorary society. This was the first meeting held under the new plan which was put into the constitution last spring. According to this plan no juniors and only sixteen seniors are elected in the fall...
...public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long as politicians control education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened public servant and uttered before presumptive students, had all the carmarks of political device. Mr. Cross...
Drastic changes in the method of election to Phi Beta Kappa will be put into effect this year, it was learned yesterday. Election of the Junior Eight has been postponed from November to March; a new election committee has been appointed, consisting of eight undergraduates and seven graduates, in place of the former committee of eight undergraduates; and excellence in tutorial work will be weighed more heavily than ever before, even for the Junior Eight...
...Dean Hanford, and Crane Brinton '19, corresponding secretary of the Harvard chapter. The elected members, who hold the position for only one year, are Mason Hammond '25, instructor and tutor in Ancient Languages, Charles C. Abbott '28, instructor and tutor in Economics, Seth T. Gano '07, graduate treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa, and Richard C. Curtis '16, prominent Boston lawyer...
...means of high marks in honors theses and divisional examinations rather than in mere course marks; and the election changes have been planned to this end. A survey of honor men for the last 12 years showed that approximately 200 men graduated magna cum laude, but did not make Phi Beta Kappa, while 100 members of the Society received only cum laude degrees. Nine Phi Beta Kappa men received no honor degree...