View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE ua provided by Wellesley College COLLEGE AEW3 Vol. 4. No. 14. WELLESLEY, MASS., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1904. Price, 5 Cents THE INSTALLATION OF PHI college to peimit the elective system, the ambition of a union of scholars." The BETA KAPPA. first to become a university, to institute motto, the grip and other secrets of the modern languages into its curriculum, to society were made public. All this time The installation of the Phi Beta Kappa support the honor system, and to shake Phi Beta Kappa had increased in chapters, Society at Wellesley on the seventeenth of free from religious supervision. The old and by 1881 there were twenty-three un- January was a memorable ceremony, and college is situated in the historic town of connected chapters. A movement was Williamsburg, and here, on December fifth, started to unite the chapters, which re- the foundation meeting gave to the college 1776, a elate which is engraved on every sulted in a national council being held in at large an opportunity to witness an event Phi Beta Kappa key, five of the college 1883. Six years ago Vassar College of great significance and future promise to students met and founded the Phi Beta petitioned for a charter, and after long dis- Wellesley College. Previous to this, the Kappa Society in the very hall where .Pat- cussion as to whether the ideals of Phi Beta Eta Chapter of Massachusetts was formal- rick Henry made his famous speech. The Kappa would be maintained in women's object of the society was self development; colleges, the charter was granted, with, ly installed by Dr. Edwin P. Giosvenor of its members were to be distinguished biy however, not one vote to spare! Amherst, after which President Hazard their courtes3', their culture and attain- Charters to Phi Beta Kappa are granted was welcomed as an honorary member. ments. They banded together under the with great care by the Senate. Not every -^ Offi^ors were elec^f-' as loIIosss; E •;-. identr '.nic of- ;he- Alpha Chapte. of- Phi Beia college with a rich endui.mein and a long Dr. Katharine M. Edwards; Vice-Presi- Kappa in Virginia. Among the members faculty list has been able to procure the dent, Dr. Margaret P. Sherwood; Sec:e- were Bushrod Washington and the first much-valued honor—and, on the other tary. Dr. Laura E. Lockwood; Treasurer, Chief Justice of the United States, John hand, some colleges which have barely a na- Mr. Clarence G. Hamilton. The initiation Marshall. tional reputation, yet which have set for followed of five members of the class of Elisha Parmale, whom Edward Everett themselves a high ideal of scholarship have 1905- Hale has called the St. Paul of Phi Beta been considered to confer honor upon the Dr. Edwards, who received her key from Kappa, came to William and Mary from splendid old organization. Four points de- Cornell, presided as chairman. The exer- Yale. He was invited to join the new termine the chances of a college for re- cises opened at half-past four with the society, and upon leaving, asked permis- ceiving the Phi Beta Kappa: the ability of ' singing by the choir of the anthem ' Oh sion to start new chapters in Harvard and its Faculty, the nature of its curriculum, " Send out Thy Light. Dr. Mackenzie, Pres- Yale. It was given, and 178 1 marks the the scholarship of its students, and its ident Emeritus of the Board of Trustees, a date of Phi Beta Kappa's introduction into general reputation. As to the qualifica- member of Phi Beta Kappa, offered Massachusetts. tions of the individuals who receive- the a short prayer, and then followed the sing- At the entrance of Benedict Arnold into key—those must be talent, ability to do ing of the "Phi Beta Kappa" h)rmn by Williamsburg, the Virginia Chapter was hard work, or both. the entire audience. In her speech of in- suspended until 1849, and during this time Professor Grosvenor concluded by say- troduction following, Professor Edwards Harvard was its careful guardian. For ing tha.t the charter was granted to Welles- explained that it was the custom to have manjr years the Phi Beta Kappa Society ley by a unanimous vote. present at the installation of a, new chapter was the only one which could pretend to After Professor Grosvenor's address, either the President of the Senate or some be a patron of literature and philosophy. Miss Hazard, who is the first honorary distinguished member whom he chose as In the meantime the chapters multiplied. member of the Eta Chapter of Massachu- his representative. To Wellesley fell the Dartmouth obtained a charter in 1787, setts, read a poem, full of grace and fancy, honor of having Dr. Grosvenor of Am- and Trinity, Wesleyan, Vermont and written by her for this occasion, entitled herst, a member of the Beta Chapter many others followed in due time. At "The Illuminators." The services were of Massachusetts, who began his address the revival of the Alpha Chapter of Vir- concluded by the singing of Alma Mater by by alluding to the strong bond of fellow- ginia there was present the last member the audience and a benediction by Dr. ship among all college people, no matter to be initiated before the dissolution of the Mackenzie. how widely separated their Alma Maters. society. The chapter flourished for a The present and charter members of the He opened the history of Phi Beta Kappa time, and again was disbanded, to be re- Wellesley Chapter are Miss Hazard, Miss by paying a short but eloquent tribute to vived eleven years ago, but the long gap Edwards, Miss Sherwood, Miss Lockwood, William and Mary College of Virginia, was bridged by the presence of Benjamin Miss Burnham, Mr. Hamilton and Dr. Ban- where the society was born one hundred Saunders Ewell, who was initiated at the croft of the Faculty; and Clara Bruce, Ellen and twenty-eight years ago. The oldest time of the second organization in 1849. Manchester, Isabelle Stone, Louise Sylves- college in America, it is notable also for Phi Beta Kappa had long before grown ter and Ethel Waxham, all from the class of its progressive spi it, It vts the first from a secret society "into the larger 1905. COLLEGE NEWS College IRews, E. 1R. Cook <R Co. HATS for College Girls Pri«» »r N. A. Linosev 4 Co.. Boston. 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Vivian, 1894 Managing Editors, Helen R, Norton, 1905 Elizabeth Camp, 1905 helpful preparation. It is perhaps almost J. Gertrude Francis, 1906 impossible to reach any very definite decision by statistics of this kind, for Our Microscopes, Microtomes, Laboratory Glass- ware, Chemical Apparatus. "Entered as second class matter, November 12, different people demand vastly different Chemicals, Photo I 1903, at the post office at Wellesley, Mass., under Lenses and Shutters, Field Classes, Projection I things of an)' college; yet if this curious the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Apparatus, Photo-Micro Cameras are used by I "Questionnaire" proves once more that the leading Lab- „„.—^ oratories and I Goier'nt Wellesley has given the greatest possible Dep'IsjH |KS[ Round the World 1 The "Questionnaire," recently issued by good to the greatest possible number, it the New York Wellesley Club to all its will have proved somewhat useful, as an assurance to those who may still be in members, for the purpose of obtaining a doubt. desirability of SCOPES consensus of opinion on the President Hazard tells us that Wellesley 1 college education for girls, is interesting is now the largest college for women in the Catalogs' even from an undergraduate point of view. United States. In many respects it is doubtless one of the best; and if we can The questions cover the widest possible Bausch & Lomb Opt. Co. make it any better by submitting both it Rochester, n. Y. every phase of college New York Chicago Boston Frankfurt, C range, challenging and ourselves to an occasional rigorous L life to justify itself; and many Wellesley mid-year examination like the one made graduates who are not members of the out by the New York Wellesley Club, the attempt may be worth while. But an ex- New York Club will doubtless be interested amination is by no means always the best to read the combined answers, if they are test of development and attainment. to be published. Yet to a college girl it Engage Tables now for would seem that the opinion thus gained NOTICE. must be of limited use to those who are All copy for College News should be Dinner at the Inn, Feb- ' v.