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...century ago, U. S. college fraternity life was quietly taking form in three genteel Eastern institutions. Phi Beta Kappa, first Greek letter society (1776), had already become nonsecret and purely honorary, with half a dozen chapters. Union College at Schenectady, N. Y. produced the next three: Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi and Delta Phi, between 1825 and 1827. A Kappa Alpha branch was formed at Williams College, a Sigma Phi branch at Hamilton College. The earnest youths who founded these orders adopted Phi Beta Kappa's early mottoes, secret rituals, badges, grips...
Engaged. William Barry Wood Jr.. 21, of Milton, Mass., high ranking Harvard scholar, member of Phi Beta Kappa, and captain of the 1931 Harvard football team; and Mary Lee Hutchins, Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar. where she led the daisy chain...
Oscar Sutermeister '32, of Kansas City, Missouri, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and pole vaulter in the Intercollegiate Olympic team, was awarded the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University for the year 1932-33. The Studentship is given annually in memory of the only descendant of John Harvard ever to attend Harvard College...
Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa baseball team, well groomed after a week of practice, and confident of a decisive win over the Yale scholars, received word from New Haven Saturday morning that because of unexpected pressure of examinations the Eli Phi Beta Kappa players would be unable to take part in the contest that had been scheduled. The blue forces have won the last two games staged between the rival orders, and this year the Harvard key men were on edge to hand the New Haven players a sound drubbing. It is believed by some that two key members...
...metallic accompaniment of golden keys, the members of the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa will demonstrate their versatility tomorrow when they take their positions upon the Freshman diamond on Soldiers Field to open the annual baseball classic against their Yale brethren. Tomorrow the Harvard scholars will be seeking their first victory in three years. In 1930 the Elis won by the comfortable margin of 50 to 2, and last spring the score...