Word: professor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Even in this hour of wide-spread disillusionment and reaction," said Professor Bliss Perry in his address before the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon, "I venture to select a few ideals for society which have been proclaimed by poetry. Let us ask ourselves whether these ideals still persist and whether the poets think that there is any measurable progress towards their attainment...
...Professor Perry in his oration on "Poetry and Progress," traced the relation of several fundamental ideas developed in the course of individual and social progress to the are of poetry. He showed first how the conception of right easiness has been fostered by the poets. Another ideal, scarcely less noble, he found to be the ideal of justice...
President, William Roscoe Thayer '81, author and poet; vice-president, Professor Francis William Taussig '79, of the Economics Department, still on war service in Washington; secretary, Professor William Guild Howard '91, of the German Department; treasurer, Richard Henry Dana '74, prominent laywer. A vote was passed by the meeting to invite the united chapters of Phi Beta Kappa to hold their next triennial meeting here in Cambridge. The following list of honorary members was also approved by the society...
...Literary Exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Sanders Theatre. Oration by Professor Bliss Perry and Poem by the Reverend Percy S. Grant...
President Meiklejohn's suggestions can hardly be called plans as yet, but if put into practice they will go even farther than the scheme now in vogue at Harvard. It will not be enough for the Amherst undergraduate to satisfy each individual professor as to his proficiency in particular subjects. At the close of his sophomore year he will be required to demonstrate by the range of his knowledge and ability that he is getting something worth while out of the college. And before he receives his degree he will have to undergo another general test to determine whether...