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Amid a religious hush, the German youths swore, "We make ourselves answerable to Germany!" At Hamburg an added touch was to bestow on dedicated youths the quality of "young Siegfrieds...
...societies which exist to bestow high accolade on U. S. scholars, most illustrious are Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, which enrolls honor students of all kinds; Tau Beta Pi (1885) and Sigma Xi (1886) which respectively honor engineers and scientists. Sigma Delta Chi, established in 1909 for students of journalism, is no great shakes. Not until 1933 did anyone do anything about providing clergymen with a professional honor society. Long in organizing, that society -Theta Phi-was launched last week under the auspices of a highly respectable group of U. S. ministers...
...point where he is able and willing to take his studies into his own hands and push them forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer, without needing to be prodded by the inexorable requirement of courses and examinations, has received the greatest benefit which Harvard can bestow on him. One learns, however, in talking with tutors, that many students can never be brought to this point. The fact need occasion no surprise. A tutor is not a performer of miracles; try as he may, he cannot stimulate a student to do self-directed scholarly work of a high order...
...Long sent a henchman to Tulane to notify that university that he expected to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. President of Tulane's Board of Administrators was and is Es mond Phelps, part owner of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune. The Board voted to bestow no degree on Governor Long. "Is zat so?" the Kingfish is reputed to have howled when the henchman brought back the news. "I'll make Tulane look like a goddamned cross-roads country school...
After a spokesman delivers an address in the new, Stockholm Concert House, telling why the awards in each academy are made, the king will bestow upon the winners the embossed diploma, gold medal, and check, emblems of the prize. At a dinner in the evening, the winners make informal speeches, while later in the week they attend a banquet given in the royal palace...