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...University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was the host at the thirteenth national council of the fraternity held in Cambridge September 9 and 10 and attended by 125 delegates from the various branches of the honorary scholarship society in American colleges...
...business sessions of the council were held in the Union and at the Agassiz House, Radcliffe. Following these the annual dinner was celebrated at the Colonial Club, after which the company adjourned to the Widener Library where interesting books and manuscripts connected with the history of the Phi Beta Kappa...
...Even in this hour of wide-spread disillusionment and reaction," said Professor Bliss Perry in his address before the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon, "I venture to select a few ideals for society which have been proclaimed by poetry. Let us ask ourselves whether these ideals still persist and whether the poets think that there is any measurable progress towards their attainment...
...When you and I, brethren of the Phi Beta Kappa, are depressed over the prevalent violence of the educated classes, over their lack of serenity and poise, their easily wounded, vanity, their distrust of idealism, their disloyalty to moral leadership. we may find comfort in the words of Harvard's most distinguished graduate...
...vice-president, Professor Francis William Taussig '79, of the Economics Department, still on war service in Washington; secretary, Professor William Guild Howard '91, of the German Department; treasurer, Richard Henry Dana '74, prominent laywer. A vote was passed by the meeting to invite the united chapters of Phi Beta Kappa to hold their next triennial meeting here in Cambridge. The following list of honorary members was also approved by the society...