Word: phi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alpha Phi Society, a ladies' secret fraternity organization in Syracuse University, has recently formed the Eta chapter in Boston University. We read that during the past week three graduate members from Syracuse, one from Schenectady, one from the faculty of Wellesley College, and one from Boston "met nine enterprising and enthusiastic ladies of Boston University, and initiated them into the enchanting mysticism of the order." The Alpha Phi Society was organized...
...Greek, like the 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...
...executive committee, or "senate" as it is called, of the united branches of the Phi Beta Kappa Held their first meeting on Dec. 27, at the rooms of the fellows of this college in Water street. measures were taken to compile a complete catalogue of the society and to investigate its history. Among those present were Rev. Dr. Hale and Justin Winsor...
...chief attractions for visitors to the library. Years ago, before Gore Hall was built, it was kept in Harvard hall. During that time a custom prevailed with regard to it, which it is interesting to recall. Mr. Bigelow thus describes this custom in his Phi Beta Kappa poem...
...either in his title or preface intimate that the book he has given us is especially intended for the benefit of Mr. Adams, still the character of the pamphlet is such that it can be taken as nothing else but a quiet reply to the Phi Beta Kappa speech. The pamphlet in question is called "The Question of a Division of the Philosophical Faculty," and is made up of the inaugural address of Prof. Hofmann on the occasion of his assuming the rectorship of the University of Berlin, and of the two opinions of the Philosophical Faculty of that university...