Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overwhelmed with requests to use his telephone and complaints about the lack of a public phone. Lionel, Mower, or Wigglesworth have as many students as several freshman entries which already have telephone service. There is no reason why the residents of these three dormitories should have their public and social lives curtailed by this discrimination...
...speakers are Isaiah Berlin, lecturer on Regional Studies, Albert Guerard, associate professor of English, and Alex Inkeles, lecturer on social Relations and associate at the Russian Research Center...
...ranks from each class. When the Alpha Chapter of Massachusetts began at the University of Cambridge in 1781 it had six members and none of the six claimed any particular fame as scholars. Phi Beta Kappa was, as a matter of fact, the first of the social Greek letter organizations which thrive on most college campuses in the United States today...
Like the mother chapter, the Harvard branch was basically a social organization. Early records describing the iniation ceremony contain much high flown language such as, "here you are to become the brother of unalionable brothers . . . everything transacted within this room is transacted sub ross, and detested is he that discloses...
...Kappa meetings began to fade away in the 1830's largely as a result the work of the Harvard chapter's Edward Everett, Joseph Story, and John Quincy Adams. The Harvard chapter's change in policy probably saved Phi Beta Kappa from becoming nothing more than the oldest collegiate social organization in the United States...