Word: betas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Beta Kappa oration will be delivered this year by Woodrow Wilson, h. '07, President of Princeton University, and the poem by Professor Barrett Wendell '77, of the English department. The exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre on Thursday, July 1, the day after Commencement...
Twenty-two men from the class of 1909 and seven men from the class of 1910 have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society. Scholarship and character are the basis for election to the society. Scholarship is not considered as merely the attainment of high grades "in unrelated and often elementary courses," but as the combination of academic distinction and ability. The additional members from the class of 1909 are to be elected at a later date...
There, was a time when the elections to Phi Beta Kappa were quite an arbitrary affair. The twenty men or more in the class who had received the greatest number of As were elected in order of their rank, according to the figures in the College office. No man was considered for election from outside this select group of scholars. For some years to attempt was made to broaden the qualifications for membership and the result was the society narrowed down into a group of men similar to those recently described by President Hadley of Yale as "professional scholars." Another...
...high scholarship for its ideal must recognize the importance of including scholars of character and ability along with the highest stand men. Some endeavor must be made to remove the opprobrium from scholarship which is all too prevalent and a continuation of such a policy by the Phi Beta Kappa will be of great assistance...
...with reports of the meetings of the various alumni organizations is given. Following this are reports of spring athletics, chiefly baseball and rowing. An excellent cut of the 1908 crew in its boat and a group picture of the ball team are used to illustrate the reports. The Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1908 "An Ode to the Universities" by Percy W. McKaye '97 and a short poem by F. W. Batchelder '60 complete the issue...