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...Beta Kappa, too, "extemporaneous disputes" and carefully prepared papers in opposite composition" were the regular fare at the fortnightly meetings. Even in those days college students had considerable aversion to doing unnecessary work, and there are many reports of meetings containing such statements as "Brother -- being absent the extemporaneous dispute was omitted," and "Brothers -- & -- being absent there were no performances." Yet most of the discussions scheduled were apparently held; and the subjects treated at these meetings have a particular interest, for they include current affairs, speculative questions, potentially humorous topics, debates on academic subjects; and a number of these...
...Anniversary Meeting became early the great annual event on the Phi Beta Kappa calendar. The date of the first regular meeting, September 5, was at first selected for celebration; from 1792 until the present the annual gathering has been held during Commencement Week, though the more recently initiated Winter Meeting, on or about December 4 (the date of the granting of the charter) is, precisely speaking, the anniversary. From the first the celebration has comprised a business meeting, literary exercises, and a dinner. Until about 1817, the business meeting took place in the college room of some member...
...Since then, among many other foreign scholars and statesmen, Sir Leslie Stephen, James Bryce, Eugen Kuhnemann, and George Walter Prothero have been chosen to honorary membership; Jean Jules Jusserand was orator in 1912; Alfred Noyes, poet in 1915. The roll of men who have joined the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa in honoring these occasions is as distinguished as it is long...
...whose secret records were stolen, "base conduct" of which this chapter naturally expressed disapproval. But the necessity, and even the advisability, of such secrecy, was called into question before many years had passed. The anti-Masonic agitation of the eighteen-twenties and thirties did not pass by Phi Beta Kappa, which was attacked for binding its members by oath not to disclose its secrets. In 1831, the President of the Harvard chapter, Edward Everett, wrote a letter to Mr. Justice Story, in which he stated: "Several friends with whom I have conversed, think it expedient wholly to drop the affectation...
...Widener Treasure Room at present in consequence of the Society's anniversary a collection of Phi Beta Kappa antiques is on exhibition. Chief among those relies is the charter of the Harvard Chapter with the interesting footnote to the effect that "the eleventh aricle (dealing with the superiority of the central body) shall be rised (erased) as far as regards the superiority of this society (the branch at William and Mary, founders of the order) over that at Cambridge." The treasurer's account book of 1797 tells of a fund to aid distressed brethren; while a photostat copy...