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TIME (Oct. 4, page 12, column 1) makes the following statement, "After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, et cetera...
Neither Cadet Summerall nor any other person has ever received his Phi Beta Kappa Key from West Point for the very excellent reason that no Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa has ever existed at West Point...
Charles Pelot Summerall was elected to honorary membership in the Phi Beta Kappa by Hobart College...
Like Napoleon, Major General Charles Pelot ("Per Schedule") Summerall is associated with the fact that when a piece of artillery hits a soldier it automatically eliminates him from the battle. After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, the fact was noted when his guns blasted the Philippine insurrectos out of the village of Calamba in 1898, when he smote down four gates of Peking at the time of the Boxer massacres. Later he entered the World War a Colonel, came out a Major General. At Soissons. St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne he commanded...
...college where the scene is laid, for Charles Paddock--Himself, and for the janitor's pet mouse which ran up Bebe Daniel's silk stocking, frightened the haughty young lady, and made her outdo the best girl hurdler old Colton could boast. Whoop it up for the Kappa Betas, who taught the haughty young lady a lesson, and then when she had won the relay for dear old Colton, promptly took her in. Whoop it up for the director who conceived the notion of locking Bebe in the Astronomy Observatory all night, the night before the race. And whoop...