Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fall the CRIMSON pointed out some obvious defects in the present system of Phi Beta Kappa selections. The fact that all but twenty-five members are chosen long before the results of their-tutorial work may be estimated was brought forward in support of a plan which would postpone these elections until the end of the Senior year. It was taken for granted that the twenty-five men chosen under the present rule at the end of their. College course would be selected largely on the basis of the honors gained in their field. The growing emphasis upon tutorial...
...Monday two events are scheduled, the meeting of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in the morning and the Senior Spread and Dance in Memorial Hall beginning at 9 o'clock in the evening...
...business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held before the literary exercises, and then at 11.30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre the oration and ode will be delivered. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 of New York is the orator and Assistant Professor Robert S. Hillyer '17 of Harvard University is the poet. Dr. W. S. Thayer '85 of Baltimore will preside...
After several years during which the Phi Beta Kappa Society's annual meeting was held on Friday morning of Commencement Week it was decided to return it to Monday for the sake of those attending the Boat Races. The meeting on Monday is open to the public, but tickets must be secured through the Secretary of the Society...
...selection of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Hillyer as the two speakers for the annual literary exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa will give the affair a requisite Harvard tinge and at the same time a wider significance, national and even international. They are notable additions to the list of Orators and Poets, which during the long existence of these exercise include many of Harvard's most eminent graduate...