Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...honorary society of Phi Beta Kappa was founded during the Revolutionary War, at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, for the purpose of recognizing scholarship and character. A few years later, the second chapter was established at Harvard. Among the men who have won election to this chapter are John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, Phillips Brooks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Summer, Thomas Went worth Higginson, John Davis Long, Charles William Eliot, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, and Theodore Roosevelt...
...scholar is seldom sensational. But the society aims to give substantial recognition to those men who believe that intellectual effort is worth while; it aims to do for the scholar what the "H" and the Varsity Club do for the athlete. Though sheer "grinding" or absolute indifference to scholarship are not likely to win election, membership is within the reach of any man of good ability who is willing to do, even at some sacrifice, the best work of which he is capable. It is interesting to note that at Yale, at a recent straw vote in which the classes...
Four men from the class of 1911 have been elected additional members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. One more member will be chosen later in the year after Commencement Honors have been announced. The men chosen are members of the Senior class who have combined distinguished excellence in scholarship with marked ability in other intellectual interests...
...following names are arranged alphabetically, and not according to order of election or rank in scholarship...
...provision in the constitution of the Phi Beta Kappa Society under which these men were elected reads as follows: "In order to meet exceptional cases where persons have shown distinguished excellence in scholarship, but have failed, for reasons not affecting their good characters to come within the requirements of Section 5 (which describes the procedure in the first elections), the immediate members may elect additional persons from their own class, not exceeding five in number...