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...election of officers of the Tau Beta Pi, Engineering honor society, F. J. Mardulier, Instructor in Civil Engineering, was elected president; T. E. Gillingham 3E.S., Vice-president; H. M. Graff 3E.S., treasurer; D. F. Wilcock 3E.S., corresponding secretary; I. L. Oppenheimer 3E.S., recording secretary; and L. H. Johnson, Jr. grE.S., cataloguer...
...chief object of criticism, however, is the undergraduate himself. The leading editorial heaps scorn upon the "indifferent," the "deb-chasers," and the "grade-grubbers," while special articles expose the short-comings of the "final" club men and the Phi Beta Kappa. The case of the "final" club men seems even more hopeless. The critic of final club mentality is uncertain whether their low scholastic standing, for which statistical proof is offered, is the consequence of congenital mental inferiority or absorption in social activities or general "indifference." In other articles a tribute is paid to the commercial tutors for their services...
...Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, initiated the following men last evening: L. H. Johnson, Jr. of Harlington, Texas, a graduate student, T. E. Gillingham of Oxford, Pennsylvania, H. M. Graff of New Canaan, Connecticut, I. L. Oppenheimer of New York City, and D. F. Wilcock of Brooklyn, New York., all Juniors. The initiation was followed by a banquet at which J. G. Callan, professor of Industrial Management of the Business School was the principal speaker...
...days when courses offered the only field in which the application of intellect and effort could be measured. The University recognized the existence of a better test years ago, and accordingly shifted the requirements for honor degrees to conspicuous achievement in Divisional examinations and honors theses. Phi Beta Kappa, with a conservatism born of long tradition, has until now refused to read the handwriting on the wall. The approval of the new system, while allowing the maintenance in a restricted form of an undergraduate nucleus, may well mean a new birth of life and vigor for the Society...
Recommendation for a change in the method of electing members to the Phi Beta Kappa Society was approved at a meeting of the undergraduates of the society last night in Leverett House Common Room. The new measure has four points: 1. That eight Juniors be admitted after midyears. 2. That 16 Senior be admitted at the beginning of the Senior year. 3. That between 40 and 50 Seniors be admitted at the end of the Senior year at the discretion of the electors. 4. That, to the undergraduates group which now does the electing be added 7 graduate members, including...