Royal Society a compliment to Lord Brouncker, a peer and the first President of the Royal Society. The society's motto, "Nullius in verba", is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it". It was adopted to signify the fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments and comes from Horace's "Epistles", where he compares himself to a gladiator who, having retired, is free from control. The society's core members are the fellows: scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth selected based on having made "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science". Fellows
Verba Maximus by English Language Activities Society (ELAS), Journal Club and Hindi Tarang, which are student organisations at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. The first edition of the fest took place in 2011, less than three years after the campus became fully operational. Verba Maximus 2016 (VM16) was held on 30th and 31 January 2016. VM16 had events like "Yin Yang" (writing two sides of the same story), "Words of a Feather" (weaving a story around words that are announced one at a time), "Picture Perspective" (writing stories around a picture shown), apart from the regular events lit-quiz, group discussion and debate. Harimohan