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...last month; they are proud of their new football coach, Wallace Wade). The local Greek-letter fraternities have no houses of their own, but the members of different brotherhoods are allowed to bunch themselves in the dormitories for a sort of "house plan" life?Kappa Alpha in Kilgo House, Sigma Alpha Epsilon in Craven House, etc. etc.?some of them with faculty members in residence...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of practical astronomy and director of the Harvard College observatory, was elected president of the newly organized Harvard chapter of the Sigma XI Society last Saturday at the founders' meeting. George David Birkhoff '05, professor of Mathematics became vice-president; Kirtley Fletcher Mather, professor of Geology, was chosen secretary; and Donald Hamilton McLaughlin '17, professor of Mining Engineering was elected treasurer...
...establishment of a Harvard chapter of the 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 of the Sigma Xi, national scientific honor society, will hold a formal installation by the national officers in the Faculty Room of University Hall at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, to establish a Harvard chapter. In the evening at 7 o'clock a dinner will be given in the Harvard Union, at which Professor Harlow Shapley, of the Harvard Observatory, who recently was awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, will preside, and at which Professor G. W. Stewart, national president of the Society of the Sigma Xi, President Lowell...
...likely that the group here will decide to hold two or three meetings each year. On of these will be the annual Sigma Xi lecture, open to the public, another will be the annual initiation and banquet, at which newly elected members are welcomed into the Society...