PHI BETA KAPPA DAY

Today for the second time, Harvard Commencement Week will be opened with a day set apart to Phi Beta Kappa exercises and the announcement of scholastic prizes--this year, a day made especially significant by the ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library.

The exercises will open with a business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Harvard Hall promptly at 9.45 o'clock. Shortly before 11 o'clock the members will form in a procession, and march to the site of the new library, there to attend the laying of the cornerstone. Thence they will proceed to Sanders Theatre; and at 11.45 the announcement of Academic Distinctions for the year will be made by President Lowell, followed by the literary exercises of the Society.

At this meeting, to which the public is invited, an innovation has been introduced. In order to increase its importance special seats have been reserved for friends and relatives of all those winning prizes and honors in the year 1912-13, and also the headquarters of the schools where these men prepared for college beside the usual reservations for friends and relatives of active members.

Program of Exercises.

Immediately after the announcement of prizes the literary exercises of the society will be held, with the President, Hon. Francis Joseph Swayze '79, justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey presiding. The program of the entire meeting will be as follows:

1. Announcement of Prizes by President Lowell.

2. Music.

3. Prayers by the Chaplain.

4. Introduction by the President, the Hon, F. J. Swayze '79.

5. The oration, delivered by Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers, of Cambridge.

6. Music.

7. The poem, given by George Edward Woodberry '77, of Beverly.

8. Announcements.

9. Benediction.

At 2 o'clock dinner will be served in the Union. Mr. Justice Swayze will preside and introduce a number of extempore speakers.

Graduates of Other Chapters Invited.

All graduates of other chapters of Phi Beta Kappa are cordially invited to join in the procession and the remainder of the program. Such graduates, wishing to attend, should secure a card signed by Mr. Lane, the University Librarian in Randall Hall, before applying for tickets to the dinner. These tickets are on sale at Kent's bookstore at $2 a plate