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...under what circumstances? No one can ever know. Were the sparkling contents a forbidden delight furtively drunk by Puritan students of two centureis ago? Were they imbibed by Continental soldiers who were quartered in the hall during the Revolution? Did they serve to enliven some solemn Phi Bets Kappa dinner held there in the last century...
...agreement was signed, in May 1914, by representatives of the following clubs: A. D. Club, Alpha Phi Sigma Club, Alpha Sigma, Phi Fraternity, Argo Club, Delphic Club, Digamma Club, D. U. Club, Falcon Club, Fly Club, Iroqois Club, K. G. X. Club, Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Owl Club, Phi Kappa Epsilon Club, Phoenix Club, Pi Eta Club, Porcellian Club, S. A. E. Fraternity, S. K. Club, Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity, Spee Club, Stylus Club, Styx Club, Tau Delta Phi Fraternity, and Zata Beta Tau Fraternity...
Originally a dormitory, in 1775 it became the ill-treated barracks of the Continental soldiers. Fifty years later it rose to fame as Harvard's well-known lecture and banqueting hall. For years the eminent Phi Beta Kappa dinners were held within its walls, and there, on commencement mornings, the President and other officers of the University welcomed the Governor of the Common-wealth...
...Maria Garcia Menocal, Cuban-born (1867) , was educated in the U.S. at Cornell University, was admitted to Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity (strong nationally and strong at Cornell). During the Spanish-American War he functioned as a fiery guerilla leader. Then he turned his attention to the Cuban American Sugar Co., took charge of the largest sugar estate on the island. In 1912, he was elected President of Cuba on the Conservative ticket. He was reelected in 1916. "Unemotional, quiet, determined, honest, economical, friendly to the U.S. say friends of Menocal...
...time is almost conie, as the Walrus was saying, for the Baccalaureate Sermon, the Class Day Oration, the Commencement Address, and even for the Phi Beta Kappa Oration. All the senior quarter of the college will soon celebrate a little sentimentally--its bachelorhood. And yet this brief, final period of celebration, following four years of supposed cerebration, only goes to emphasize the fact that for most men the cerebration part of a college career is of much less importance than appears on the college catalogue. What a man remembers when he is out of college is the football games...