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...oldest and most influential societies which draw their membership principally to the Eastern States. The first of the Greek letter organizations, the venerable Phi Beta Kappa, was established at William and May, Dec. 5, 1776. There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct, as is now the college itself. Twenty-two chapters now exist, being, in the order of the establishmen, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Union, Bowdoin, Brown, Trinity, Weslyan, Adelbert, Vermont, Amherst, University City of New York, Kenyon, Williams, College City of New York, Middlebury, Coumbia, Rutgers, Hamilton, Hobart...
...prominent junior was heard to ask what was the matter with that psalm that was read in Chapel, yesterday morning. The first chapter of Genesis according to the new revision confused...
After due consideration the "Articles of Agreement" were adopted by an almost unanimous vote, and the first jury was at once chosen. Each class is allowed to elect one member, and each chartered chapter of an inter-collegiate fraternity, if numbering at least ten persons; also the non-society men, if ten in number, elect a member. Society feeling at Bowdoin is so strong that it would probably be impossible for a system of self-government to succeed, unless it recognized the different fraternities, but under the present arrangement all prominent interests are represented on the jury...
...that occur in the course of the story, the feeling is not sustained enough, and the situations fail to give their proper effect-the real effect produced on the reader being a slight sense of artificiality, Such a description of Beverly's character as is given in the first chapter by repeating a few stories of his childhood seems not only totally unnecessary, but entirely out of accord with the main tone of the book...
...Testament from Hebrew into Greek, and in the evening a verse of the New Testament from the English or Latin translation into Greek. Before 1728, however, this system was abolished, and a service something like the present adopted. It differed principally in its length. The President always expounded the chapter from the testament which was read. On Sunday, probably for variety, this exposition was omitted, and in the evening one of the students repeated from memory the sermons he had heard during the day, a practice no doubt pleasing to its victim, and his fellow sufferers. The President was required...