A Catalogue Of The Fraternity Of Phi Beta Kappa

Author : Bayard Quincy Morgan
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ISBN 13 : 9781332230334
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Phi Beta Kappa written by Bayard Quincy Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Phi Beta Kappa: Alpha of Wisconsin; Catalogue Phi Beta Kappa embodies the spirit which is historically that of the American college - that of liberal education as distinguished from professional or technical training. It is the purpose of a liberal education to establish close and sympathetic relations between the student and human thought in its wider expression. It appeals to the deep-rooted love of knowledge for its own sake, which is never absent from the human heart. It cultivates and strengthens this love and directs it toward worthy and permanent objects. It finds those objects in the multiform expressions of human personality in letters, arts, and science, and it attempts to connect the life of the student with these as never-failing sources of pleasure and enrichment. As an honor society Phi Beta Kappa recognizes those students who have most conspicuously profited by their undergraduate course and so give promise of having fairly begun a liberal education. It gives this recognition not only to show honor to personal distinction in college work, but also to emphasize the place which a liberal education holds both in the personal life and in that of the community which the graduate enters. For the continued success of a community - whether local or national - depends in no small degree on the presence in it, as a living force, of the spirit that underlies liberal education. The love of learning for its own sake, the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, an active, alert, intellectual interest in many fields of knowledge and in those fields most widely separated from commercial profit and most alien to vocation - these must be present as vigorous elements in the common life, if this life is not to degenerate into routine and so into ultimate failure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.