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Tufts College has petitioned for chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...second drawing of the Phi Beta Kappa Society from the class of '92 at Amherst was announced Thursday...
...literary committee of the Phi Beta Kappa Society consisting of Professor L. B. R. Briggs '75, F. C. Lowell '76, Josiah Quincy '80, W. C. Lane '81, G. R. Carpenter '86, and E. R. Thayer '88, have appointed the orator and the poet for the annual exercises of the society in Sanders Theatre next June. The exercises this year will be held on June 30. The orator appointed is Rev. William Jewett Tucker. In this case the appointment has fallen on a man outside of the Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Tucker was not a graduate of Harvard. He graduated from...
...appointment of poet has been given to a Phi Beta Kappa man, Mr. Ernest Francisco Fenollossa. Mr. Fenollossa graduated from Harvard in 1874. In college he stood very high in his class and at graduation was honored with the position of class poet. He is a man of marked individuality, and uniqueness of ideas. About five years after he graduated from Harvard he went to Japan to study. During his long stay in this country he received an appointment in the Imperial University at Tokio. At this Japanese university he held three professorships, one in Philosophy and Logic...
...appointments have been given this year - 13 more than any preceding class has received. 20 men hold either Philosophical or High Orations, and thus become members of the Phi Beta Kappa. Of these eight are New England men, five of them from the Hartford High School. It is noticeable that none of the Phi Beta Kappa orations are held by men from Andover, Exeter, or St. Paul's, which are Yale's largest preparatory schools...