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...which Emerson and Sumner belonged. Mr. Phillips' life was so much a part of the history of our people that any account of it would be superfluous. A member of the class of 1831, Mr. Phillips signalized the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation by his well known Phi Beta Kappa address, in which he charged upon the educated men of the country their disregard of questions of public good. This address which attracted so much adverse criticism has been considered by many a vindication of Mr. Phillips' course of action during the many political contests in which he took part...
...peace is granting too much license even to students in an excited state and not easily controlled. It may be possible that the affair, as stated in the daily papers, is greatly exaggerated, as is apt to be the case. This was so with regard to the Phi Beta Kappa rumpus. which happened in Boston several years ago, and which in reality was only a harmless affair. We heartily hope that such is the case and that the Pennsylvanian students have not lowered the credit of their Alma Mater by any such display of boyishness and thoughtlessness...
...commencement, Aug. 25, 1830, twenty-four of the forty-eight members of Sumner's class were awarded parts. Sumner's was an inferior part, but all that his standing in the regular course admitted. Sixteen of the forty-eight were elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Sumner was not one of the sixteen, but he belonged to the Hasty Pudding Club, and when a senator, was accustomed to send books to its library. Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Emery, of Newburyport, writes of Sumner: "He never studied, as many young men do, for college honors, but for love of study...
...January number of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly, to be published to-day at No.52 William-street, Gen. Woodford discusses the "Revival of Phi Beta Kappa," and remarks that the influence of Greek letter fraternities on college life has been "curiously great." To them has been largely due, he says. the altered condition of college culture, by which he means the transformation of the odl college into an aggregate of student republics which constitute the university. For a frontispiece, the Quarterly has an engraved view of "the pioneer Greek homestead," being a log cabin amid the hills of Central Ohio...
...defenders of ancient Greece, have bravely met and routed their opponents, the struggle to lessen the importance of Greek in the curriculum by giving more prominence to French and German has been again and again renewed; and now, strengthened by Adams's essay read before the Phi Beta Kappa in June, the supporters of the modern languages have renewed the contest with more vigor than ever before. At the last meeting of the faculty the subject was introduced and discussed, but, of course, no definite action was taken, nor is it probable that any decisive steps will be taken...