PHI BETA KAPPA REGULATIONS

The following statement of the rules regulating the election of undergraduate members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society is published for the information of possible candidates for admission to the Society.

1. Scholarship and good character shall be the ground of election into the fraternity.

2. The immediate members in the Senior class who were elected in their Junior year shall choose (a), 8 members from the Junior class, and (b), a sufficient number from their own class to increase the whole number from their class to 25. Ordinarily no more than 25 shall be chosen from any class by the immediate members.

3. Election of Juniors shall be conducted as follows: The recording secretary shall procure from the College authorities a list of the 12 members of the Junior class who, in the work of the first two years of their College course shall have the highest rank on a plan like that at present used by the authorities for awarding degrees with distinction; and if any other members of the class have the same rank as the twelfth person on such list, their names shall be added thereto. From this list 8 persons shall be chosen by ballot.

4. In electing members from their own class the immediate members shall proceed as follows: The recording secretary shall procure from the Dean of the College a list of the 25 men highest in rank (not already members of the society) who are to be candidates for the degree of A.B. at the ensuing Commencement, and have already completed at least two years' work in Harvard College, and if any other such candidates shall have the same rank as the twenty-fifth person on the list their names shall be added there to. From this list the remaining immediate members shall be chosen by ballot.

5. A three-fourths vote of all the immediate members shall be required for election into the fraternity.