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Eighteen seniors, who were elected to the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on November 17, will be initiated at a dinner in Adams House at 6.45 o'clock tonight. A business meeting will follow...
...Chase, president of the Graduate Council will preside. President Conant, who is honorary president of the Graduate Council, will not be at the dinner, but will afterwards present the keys and certificates to the new members who will also receive copies of the American Scholar and the Phi Beta Kappa Index, the fraternity's official handbook...
...meeting of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, held at Lowell House last night, sixteen seniors were elected to the honorary society. This was the first meeting held under the new plan which was put into the constitution last spring. According to this plan no juniors and only sixteen seniors are elected in the fall...
...America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long as politicians control education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened public servant and uttered before presumptive students, had all the carmarks of political device. Mr. Cross was content...
...high marks in honors theses and divisional examinations rather than in mere course marks; and the election changes have been planned to this end. A survey of honor men for the last 12 years showed that approximately 200 men graduated magna cum laude, but did not make Phi Beta Kappa, while 100 members of the Society received only cum laude degrees. Nine Phi Beta Kappa men received no honor degree...