Phi Beta Kappa Exercises.

The literary committee of the Phi Beta Kappa Society consisting of Professor L. B. R. Briggs '75, F. C. Lowell '76, Josiah Quincy '80, W. C. Lane '81, G. R. Carpenter '86, and E. R. Thayer '88, have appointed the orator and the poet for the annual exercises of the society in Sanders Theatre next June. The exercises this year will be held on June 30. The orator appointed is Rev. William Jewett Tucker. In this case the appointment has fallen on a man outside of the Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Tucker was not a graduate of Harvard. He graduated from Dartmouth, and in 1875 received from there a degree of D. B. For a long time Dr. Tucker has been connected with the Andover Theological School; and at present beholds a professorship there. He is one of the most prominent of the modern liberal Congregationalists, and is well known as a speaker of great ability.

The appointment of poet has been given to a Phi Beta Kappa man, Mr. Ernest Francisco Fenollossa. Mr. Fenollossa graduated from Harvard in 1874. In college he stood very high in his class and at graduation was honored with the position of class poet. He is a man of marked individuality, and uniqueness of ideas. About five years after he graduated from Harvard he went to Japan to study. During his long stay in this country he received an appointment in the Imperial University at Tokio. At this Japanese university he held three professorships, one in Philosophy and Logic, and one in Fine Arts. His studies in the Fine Arts led him to make a large collection of Japanese paintings and other works of Japanese art. A few years ago he returned to Boston bringing his art collection with him. Mr. Fenollossa is now in the Boston Art Museum where he has charge of the department of Japanese art of which his own collection forms a large portion.