PHELPS 



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PHI BETA KAPPA 



SOME OF THE 



PHEASANTS 



Enalish 

 Ring NecK Pheasant 



Among other well-known species are the 

 golden pheasant, so called from its golden-yel- 

 low crest and bright yellow breast; the Chinese 

 silver pheasant, a beautiful bird whose white 

 upper parts are delicately marked with black 

 ; and the * nrcd pheasant of Central and 

 Eastern Asia, whose name refers to the long 

 white tufts of feathers growing out from the 

 ears. Representatives of these and many other 

 ins may usually be seen in American zo- 

 -rical gardens. M.K.T. 



Consult Knowlton's Bird* of the World; Teget- 

 'hcasanta: Their Nat urn I History and 

 Management. 



PHELPS, /./pa, ELIZABETH STUART. See 



rUART I ' HELPS. 



PHENACETIN, /, Kit'tfJm, a headache and 

 icdy belonging to the coal tar group, 



in which M iv included :inti|.yrcne and acetamlid. 



All of these medicines have >>uf 



ph. n M . tm i- thr least depressing of the three. 



r be taken, however, except on 



the advice of a physician. See HEAD.V. 

 AcETANii.m; ANTIPV 



PHENIC, ff'nik. ACID. See CARBOLIC AdD. 



PHI BETA KAPPA, fi b, ' ta kap'a, or je 

 ba'tah kah'pah, the oldest of the (i 

 ter college fraternities It was 

 founded December .".. 1776, at 

 William and Mary College in 



Virmma. and before the I" 

 ning of thr nin.tr. nth century 

 had established chapters at "> 

 II vard and Dartmouth. Its 

 with it- 

 mot -,-cn t. hut its 

 <l purpose was the promo-: 

 tion of scholarship and of p 



<llv it lost its sc- 

 i its so- 



and became what it ia to-day an 

 >rary society, membership in which i> 

 <1 at graduation, or sh< re, upon 



those students who stand best in scholarship 



