The Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa welcomed 27 new members at its Nov. 18 meeting in Moore Hall.
To qualify for election to the nation's oldest honor society, students must achieve grade point averages that fall within the top 20 in their class after completing eight terms within three years of matriculation.
The Dartmouth chapter, Alpha of New Hampshire, is the fourth-oldest chapter of the honor society, which was founded in 1776 by a group of students from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Peter Hackett '75, the Avalon Foundation Chair in the Humanities and professor of theater, was elected as an alumni member.
In his address, he talked about how Dartmouth inspired him to pursue a career in theater as a practitioner, embodying the Phi Beta Kappa spirit of "love of learning is the guide of life" in the art he has produced on stage and in the classroom.
Presiding over the ceremony were executive officers of the Alpha of New Hampshire Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth: President Andrew Samwick, the Sandra L. and Arthur L. Irving '72a P'10 Professor of Economics; Vice President Russell Muirhead, the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics; Secretary-Treasurer Kate Soule, director of Arts and Sciences finance and research administration; and Chapter Marshal Treb Allen, Michael G. Fisch 1983 Distinguished Professor of Economics.