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...first meeting of members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society held in Dean Greenough's office Wednesday night resulted in the election of Henry Traugott Dunker '25 of Davenport, Iowa, as first marshal and Howard Parker Sharp '25 of Pittsburg, Pa, as second marshal, Mr. Sharp is at present the secretary of the society. The marshals will be in charge of the various meetings during the year...
...December and during the year other dinners are held in the Society's rooms, prominent members of the faculty being invited as guests and speakers. The graduate members of the fraternity also held several dinners during the year. Monday of Commencement Week is set aside as Phi Beta Kappa Day, and is the occasion for literary exercises which are always of first rank in scholarly value. Such men as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow '59 (hon.), have read poems at these meetings. There have been addresses and orations by many prominent men among...
...Beta Kappa keys will be awarded to 30 juniors and seniors after the annual elections of the society to be held this week. Tonight the eight members of the class of 1925 who compose the present membership of the organization will select eight men from the class of 1926 and 22 members from the class of 1925 who will receive their keys this year. On Friday night, after approval by the faculty, the entire list will be announced...
...Beta Kappa is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America, founded at William and Mary College in 1776. The University Chapter, which was the first one organized in Massachusetts, was established in 1779, three years after the fraternity had been organized. In the past the University chapter has numbered among its membership such famous men as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Charles William Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Brggs, '75, James Russell Lowell '38, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, and Theodore Roosevelt...
...Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, an honorary engineering society corresponding to Phi Beta Kappa in liberal arts colleges, announced yesterday the election of three fourth year Engineering School men to the society. The men chosen were Charles Joseph Hubbard Jr. 4E.S. of Cambridge, captain of the University football team last year. Wilson Palmer 4E.S. of Newton, and Thomas Carroll Van Stone 4E.S. of Santa Fe. New Mexico...