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Last Saturday at the Phi Beta Kappa meeting Mr. Paul Shorey tried modern culture and found it dull. Americans are sexually inept, poets are crude, intellectually the country is dead. As a solace from this tedious period Mr. Shorey looked not to a refreshing dawn in the future, but preferred to gaze longingly at the roseate sunset of a halycon past. Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, and Emerson are the foundations of American culture the men to whom their countrymen must point with pride...
...detailed study of the American past avails nothing, if it is not put to some constructive use in the future. All this Mr. Shorey neglected while betraying his quite natural affection for the good old days. Granting the speaker that modern culture is a barren wasteland, Phi Beta Kappa men should not be advised to eschew it for the more pleasant task of literary research. They should be urged only to insert their keys in the doors that will open more pleasant avenues of thought and culture...
...speaking of the Harvard tradition, the Phi Beta Kappa tradition, and the New England tradition, Shorey made the point that the Phi Beta Kappa group was distinctly one of high standards of a certain kind, and that meetings of the kind held Saturday are necessary if this minority group is to be kept in existence in a profitable...
With scholars, members of distant chapters, this year's newly elected group, and countless guests in attendance, Harvard Saturday celebrated the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Phi Beta Kappa society chapter of the University. The program in Sanders Theatre consisted of a speech by Paul Shorey '78, a poem by Hermann Hagedorn '07, and music by the University choir...
Following the speaking, a large portion of the audience adjourned to Memorial Hall, where a luncheon was provided, and following the luncheon the newly elected members of this year's groups of Phi Beta Kappa men were presented with keys of their rank...