The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-07
ALUMNI GO into
PHI BETA Knapp
Distinguished Sons of Washing
ton and Lee Received Into
Fraternity.
Especial to The Timcs.pispatcb !

| stallation of the Chapter of Phi Hcta
Kappa at Washington and Lee Univer-
! slty on Friday night. as reported in.
Saturdays rimcsDispatch, Is an honor
long deserved and fully appreciated by
| this university.
It's installation Is largely due to tho
| efforts Of the charter members of the
! chapter. who arc professors in the uni.
| rersity. There are but two chapters
! In Nirgnia--one ut william and Mary
| College. which was the original chan.
/ ter In the state, ana was founded De-
ccmbcr >. IT16, anu Il few years ago
the second WAS installed at the Univcr-
sity of Nirg inia. There arc only few
chapters throughout tho entire South
Ice Memorial Chapel was ,he scene
of the installation Of the chapter Of
the Phi Beta Kappa. The chapel was
filled 10 It's capacity with students and
townspcople. While on the stage were
many of the distinguished alumni of
Washington and Lee who had returned
TO their lima ma err TO he received into
the fraternity. There We're also present
upon the stage. us guests of the uni
versity. the following:
Edwin Augustus Crosvenor LII D.,
professor of modern government and
International law. Amherst College.
Mass, who. as president of the United
Chapters OF Phi Beta Kappa. presented
the charter OF tho Washington and Leo
Chapter: Armistead Churchill Gordon,
LII. d. rector OF the University of
Virginia: William Waugh Smith, LII.
D.. president OF Randolph Macon No
mans College, Lynchburg. VA. and
Hunter Pendlcton, PHI. D., professor oj
chemistry Virginia Military Institute
On the platform were also the charter
members OF the Washington and Lee
Chapter, William Alexander Anderson
Prof. John Holiday l.atanc, PHI. d..
Prof. james Lewis Howe, PHI. D., Prof
James William Kern, Phi. D.. Prof.
Robert Granville Campbell, Ph. D.. ana
Prof. dc la War; BenIatnin Easter,
PHI. D.
Alumni Received
The following alumni Of Washington
and Lee were received into the chapter:
Jacob y. NJ. Armistcad, Is. a., PHI. D..
'o7. professor OF English. Agnes Scott
College, Decatur. Ga; Brown Ayrcs, B.
s.. "a. president University of Ten
nessee. knoxville, Tenn; Hugh Mcr-
Ger T3lain. Is. A.. NJ. a., '95, professor
Of English Louisiana State University.
Baton Rouge, La; Martin Parks Burks.
b. A. 3. L.. LII D., 20, doan OF school
of law, Washington and Leo University.
Henry Donald Campbell NJ. a., Ph, ID.
'S5, dean of Washi ngtOn and Lee Uni
versity: John Lyle Campbell, 20. treas.
urcr of Washington and lee UNIVERSE.
ty: Leslie Lyle Campbell. NJ. A.. PHI
D., al, professor OF physics. Simmons
College, Boston, Mass. Robert Fish
burne Campbell NJ. A.. 20. ID. D., pas
tor Prcsby terrain Church. Ashevilie y.
c.; George Earle Chamberlain, II. a., II.
L., 'T6, United States Senator Oregon;
Lucicn Howard Cooke. rs. attorney-at-
law. Roanoke; Harry lohnston Darnell,
50. professor of German, University ot
Tennessee. KnoXville: John william
Davis p. A.. b. L.. '35. member of
Congress, Cinrlssburg, ". Va; Wade
Hampton Ellis u. L., 50, former AS
sistant Acknowledgement of United
States. Cincinnati. William anderson
Glasgow. Sc. attorney law. Phila-
dolphia. Pa; John NJ. Glenn 10, direc-
tor of Russell Sage Foundation, New
York; George Hutchinson Denny. Phi
d., LII d., president Washington and
Lee University; Charles Alfred Graves.
Is. a.. NJ. a.. 10, LII. b. professor OF
law, University OF Virginia: L. Sydnor
kirkpatrick, attorney -at-law. Lynch
burg; Stephen Leslie Meztrezat, B. L..
III. associate Justice of tho Supremet
Court of Pcnnsylvania; Sidney Turner
AIoreland, III. A., c. t.. '76, principal
McDonoGh School. McDonogh, Md; Ed
ward West Nichols. superintendent
Virginia Military Institute; Matthew
White Paxton. rs, editor Rockbrldge
land Perrow, h. A.. NJ. a, PHI. D.. 'o6,
health officer, Lyrchburg; Thomas ID.
Hanson. 60, attorneyat-law, stanton:
Jnmcl Luther Slayden. rs. member OF
Congress, San Antonio. Tex; Thomas
Hugh Somcrvillc, 70. professor of law,
University of Mississippi. Oxford James
Bell Built, B. a., NJ. a., 90. pro-
University OF mississippi: Givens
Brown Strickler 81. r. D., LII.
y, professor of theology, Union
ThcoloS ical Seminary. Richmond;
Robert Latham Owen. NJ A., ~. Unit,
ed States Senator. Oklahoma; william
Taylor Thorn. 20, Is. L., ID. L., editor
United States Geological Survey, Wash
ington; William Reynolds Vance, N. a.
l'h. D., s. L.. 90, professor of law.
Yale University. New Haven, Con-
Harrington Waddeil. r. a., Ds, prln.
cinal public schools, Lexington: George
Armstrong Waushone. NJ A, 'ss, pro-
lessor of English, University of South
Carolina. Columbia. South Carolina.
Mortimer Norton Wisdom. B. L., '73,
New Orleans. La t5a
students Elected.
There were also ten students of In.
university who had been elected mem
pers, They We're: Thomas Walter
Fred. B.. a., George Thurman knotc. B.
a.; Philip Wilhelm Murray. %. A.: No
bic Doak SmithsoIl. B. A: Virgil
Preston sydenstricker. B. A.: Robert
William Dickey. 49, s.. Edward Emcr-
son Brown. John Turner Gray Jr..
Henry Ciapham NIcCiavach and VIII
liam Thlirmond Rivierc The four last
named will receive their haccalaureatc
degrees this year.
The invocation was madc by Dr.. g.
B. Stricken. and Hon A. c. Gordon,
rector of the University of Virginia,
aelivered the creating OF the other Vir-
gina chapters. DIR. Edwin Augustus
| Grosvenor in delivering the charter.
made an appropriate address on the
record and purposes Of the Phi Beta
Kappa Fraternity. The charter was
received on behalf of Washington and
Lee by Or. John Holiday Latane. who
made an address in reply to DR.. Gros-