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Phi Beta Kappa Honored Four

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The University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, before its annual literary exercises yesterday, elected four honorary members, as well as officers for next year. The men honored by the society were Alfred Noyes, of Exeter College, Oxford, England, who delivered his poem "A Plea for Peace" in Sanders Theatre yesterday; Sidney Edward Mezes '92, president of the University of Texas from 1908 to 1914 and recently made president of the College of the City of New York; Chester Noyes Greenough '98, professor of English at Harvard; and Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post.

The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Charles Hall Grandgent '83; vice-president, William Osborn Taylor '79; secretary, William Coolidge Lane '81; treasurer, Richard Henry Dana '74.

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