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...Kappa Epsilon Spread in rear of Matthews Hall between 6 and 8 o'clock...
...Beta Kappa Spread on lawn in front of Brooks House between 6 and 8 o'clock...
...Kappa Gamma Chi Spread in rear of Holworthy Hall between 6 and 8 o'clock...
...scholarship. The thirty-five highest-stand men of a class, say, should be automatically elected with possibly five more after the announcement of prizes and degrees at the end of the Senior year. If the eight to thirty-five men to whom the responsibility of perpetuating Phi Beta Kappa is yearly entrusted were omniscient, such a standard would be foolishly narrow; but they are not omniscient, and the consideration of personality is all too liable to oreep insidiously in, and displace the primary and higher consideration -- for their purpose--of scholarship...
...question of whether Phi Beta Kappa is a valuable organization at present. It is a question of whether Phi Beta Kappa may not be more valuable--a question for the members present and past who are dealing not with their own likes and dislikes but with the possibility of ultimate service to the cause of scholarship, to consider. On this day, set apart distinctly for Phi Beta Kappa, it deserves praise for what it has done, rather than criticism and a suggestion of what it might do. Perhaps, however, as John Milton said of the Long Parliament in his "Areopagitica...