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...noon today in Sanders Theatre a distinguished group of nearly 500 persons will meet to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and to conduct initiation ceremonies for the group of 40 undergraduates, 32 seniors and eight juniors, who were recently elected to membership in the society. The poem, oration, and other ceremonies will commence at 12 o'clock. The second gallery is open to the public, and there will be no admission charge...
...chapter at the University of North Carolina, where he was an undergraduate. Kjellesvig, who receives his key today, is a student in the Harvard Medical School. That there will be no conferring of honorary memberships was also made known. The 'shingles', facsimile photographs of the original Harvard Phi Beta Kappa charter of 1779, signed by Justice Wait and Professor Howard will be distributed to the new men later in the year...
...this liberalization of policy, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa escaped once and for all the possibility of becoming merely one of many undergraduate social clubs. It made itself definitely free to choose its members on merit, and to devote itself singly to the purpose of scholarship...
Such has been the fundamental attitude of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa for the past century. As the college has grown, the maximum number to be elected to the Society from each class has been increased--not always with corresponding rapidity--from a normal membership of sixteen from each class, until 1866, by stages of thirty, forty, and forty-five, to the present maximum of sixty-five (about one-tenth of the number of men in each graduating class). Traditionally, eight men are chosen in the fall of their third year, as the "Junior Eight"; thirty-two Seniors are elected...
...only other activity of these "immediate members" (except for the recently revived baseball game with the Yale chapter) is the undergraduate tutoring bureau, founded in 1914-15, through which students who need help in their studies are advised free of charge. Thus the present status of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard is that of an all-but-honorary society. Because each year some of the twenty-two seniors elected in the fall receive their degrees only cum laude, while a number of men who are awarded a magna cum laude at commencement cannot be taken into the fraternity on account...