ANNUAL PHI BETA KAPPA MEETING TO BE HELD MONDAY

Meeting on the one hundred and fifty-first anniversary of the founding of the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, the Harvard chapter will hold its annual banquet and initiation in Kirkland House next Monday evening. A business meeting will precede the banquet, at which important changes in the election rules of the Society will be considered.

Speakers at the dinner, announced yesterday by G. H. Chase '96, president of the Harvard chapter, will be President Lowell, W. A. Shimer '18, general secretary of Phi Beta Kappa, and T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. President Lowell will present keys to the 40 men who were elected to the Society last Friday. The meeting Wednesday will be the first ever held in a House, former banquets having been held in Memorial Hall and the Union.

Discuss Election Changes

The matter coming up for discussion at the business meeting will be a radical change in the system of elections, making it an arbitrary rule to elect all men who receive degrees magna cum laude at Commencement. Under the present laws of the society only 25 men are elected from those receiving high honor degrees, which makes it necessary to exclude some in that category. If the proposed change is made the society will no longer have a fixed number of members each year, but will vary with the number of honor degrees awarded. At present 65 men are elected annually.

A new constitution for the Harvard chapter, not embodying any change in the election rules, will be voted on at the meeting. The principal difference in it is the abolition of undergraduate marshals. In the past, two marshals have been selected from the Junior Eight, but under the new rules the election of marshals would be delayed until after graduation, the business of the undergraduate organization being carried on by a secretary selected from the Junior Eight.

The recently elected members of the Junior Eight, who will elect members of the Society next year, are M. H. Abrams '34, E. A. Ackerman '34, D. J. Boerstin '34, D. D. Cody '34, A. C. Dearing, Jr. '34, Barney Foldman '34, E. S. Godfrey, 3d. '34, and H. M. Katzin '34