Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prior to the election, sixty-four distinguished scientists, members of the faculties of Harvard's undergraduate and graduate schools, were formally inducted into the new society, the national "Phi Beta Kappa" of the field of science. A number of the Harvard faculty already hold membership in other chapters of the Society and were therefore automatically admitted into the Harvard chapter...
...address before the Yale chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Professor Ulrichs made the statement that the University should equip its graduates with "the professional touch." With the increasing tendency toward specialization it is inevitable that more and more emphasis must be put on professional training, but whether it is the college's job to provide this training is a matter of doubt. The graduate schools are in a position to put their work on a professional standard, but undergraduates should not necessarily be expected to carry their studies to this point...
...national scientific honor society of Sigma Xi is a fitting public recognition of the important place which the sciences hold in the University. Although undergraduates will be elected to Sigma Xi only on rare occasions, the Society will mean to those working in the sciences much what Phi Beta Kappa means to those working in the humanities...
...Society is an honor society, analogous in the field of science to Phi Beta Kappa in the field of the humanities. A number of the Harvard Faculty already hold membership in other chapters of the Society at other institutions. They will form the nucleus of the Harvard chapter. Harlow Shap- ley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, is president pro tem. and K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, is secretary...
According to A.W. Samborski this promises to be one of the best fraternity meets yet held. Last year the victory fell to Delta Upsilon, with Alpha Sigma Phi and Kappa Sigma respectively second and third...