Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amendment providing for the election of at least 40 seniors on the basis of high honors, was passed Monday at a meeting of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, when it held its annual election of officers and honorary members. As in previous years, the society will admit to its membership the usual "Junior Eight" and "Senior Sixteen" in addition to the Seniors attaining honors in special fields and recommended for degrees with distinction at Commencement...
...clock--Phi Beta Kappa exercises in Sanders Theatre. Orator, Governor W. L. Cross of Connecticut; poet, Archibald MacLeish...
...clock--Phi Beta Kappa luncheon...
...established. The program was to be scholarly indeed. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry of Harvard Theological School, first Rhodesman sent abroad from Michigan, would deliver the Swarthmore baccalaureate. English Professor Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, first Rhodesman from West Virginia and now Yale's expert on Marlowe, would give the Phi Beta Kappa address. The Swarthmore commencement address would be delivered by Sir Francis James Wylie. who lately retired as resident host and welcomer to Rhodes Scholars at Oxford (TIME, March 7, 1932) and this year, with his white-haired, U. S.-born wife, has been visiting Rhodesmen...
...degree is the prerogative of every home born child of whatever position or attainments. University catalogues have been lavish in their descriptions of unmoneyed young men who have earned many thousands of dollars in the course of their college careers, have become class officers and have merited Phi Beta Kappa. Almost every college, of course, can boast of a few such men in its history, and can embalm them in catalogues for the enchantment of the yokelry. During prosperous years men attracted by their example have been able to survive, to balance precarious budgets and to secure their degrees...