Untermeyer, Haskins and Brooks Address Phi Beta Kappa Meeting This Morning

Two authors and a research scientist will address the annual meeting of the College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this morning at 11 a.m. in Sanders Theatre. The Literary exercises will be open to the public without charge.

Louis Untermeyer will read "Orpheus and His Lute," and Caryl P. Haskins will deliver his oration, "Science and the Whole Man." Van Wyck Brooks '08, president of the chapter, will preside.

Following the exercises in Sanders, a luncheon for members and their guests, excluding women, will be held in the Warburg Room of the Fogg Museum. Members of other chapters of Phi Beta Kappa are invited to attend the luncheon, if they have made prior reservations.

A member of The American Mercury from 1934 to 1937, has lectured throughout the country, and has written numerous books of poetry and literary criticism.

After graduating from Yale in 1930, Haskins received at Ph.D. from Harvard in 1935. Since the middle thirties he has been president of Haskins Laboratories, a professor at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., and has served as scientific consultant to several government agencies.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Brooks has written "America's Coming of Age," and "The Flowering of New England.

Preceding the literary exercises, there will be a business meeting of the chapter at 10 a.m. in Room 1, Harvard Hall.