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...annual dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa society will be held at the Hotel Westminster this evening at 7 o'clock. F. P. Fish '75, W. C. Lane '81, and A. N. Holcombe '06 will represent the graduates. J. G. Gilkey '12 will act as poet, and J. A. Spaulding '12 as orator...
...last dinner of the social service committee of Brooks House will be held in the Phi Beta Kappa Room of Memorial Hall this evening at 6.30 o'clock. Reports from the various committee men will be presented and the final report of the secretary will be submitted. The committee expects as guests: C. W. Birtwell '85, of the Boston Children's Aid Society; Professor T. N. Carver, Assistant Professor H. N. Davis, Dr. A. N. Holcomb, Professor E. C. Moore, Assistant Professor L. F. Schaub, and Dean Wells. The members of last year's committee have also been invited...
...Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual dinner at the Hotel Westminster, Copley square, Boston, on Tuesday evening, May 9, at 7 o'clock. The principal guests will be F. P. Fish '75 and A. N. Holcombe '06. S. T. Williams, of Yale, and E. W. Cheyney, of the University of Pennsylvania, will be present as delegates from the Phi Beta Kappa chapters of their universities...
...doubtful if one Freshman in a hundred knows these requirements and the proportion in the upper classes is not much higher. Here the average undergraduate is willing to admit that the Phi Beta Kappa is an estimate institution, but to him it is something vague and unreal. He has no idea what he must accomplish to become eligible, and so he spends no time nor thought on the matter...
...other hand, if there were a set standard of work, and if Freshmen and Sophomores were eligible, then at once this standard would become generally known and men of ability at all studiously inclined would be attracted. The Phi Beta Kappa would become one of the regular college "activities." Men would go out for it just as at present they try for a team or a paper. Under such a system of a fixed standard, with Freshmen and Sophomores eligible, the Phi Beta Kappa would shortly emerge from the murky obscurity that now envelopes it and assume its rightful position...