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...election committee will consist of last year's Junior Eight and four elected and three ex-officio graduate members of the Society. The ex-officio members are President Conant, Dean Hanford, and Crane Brinton '19, corresponding secretary of the Harvard chapter. The elected members, who hold the position for only one year, are Mason Hammond '25, instructor and tutor in Ancient Languages, Charles C. Abbott '28, instructor and tutor in Economics, Seth T. Gano '07, graduate treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa, and Richard C. Curtis '16, prominent Boston lawyer...
...attempt of the Society, ac- cording to Dr. Brinton, to honor these who show their scholarship by means of high marks in honors theses and divisional examinations rather than in mere course marks; and the election changes have been planned to this end. A survey of honor men for the last 12 years showed that approximately 200 men graduated magna cum laude, but did not make Phi Beta Kappa, while 100 members of the Society received only cum laude degrees. Nine Phi Beta Kappa men received no honor degree...
...Chase '96, was elected president for the coming year, while L. P. Marvin '98, will be Vice-President. Williard Reed '91, and Crane Brinton '19, were elected Chief Marshal and Corresponding Secretary respectively...
Died. George Brinton Caldwell, 69, retired president of George B. Caldwell & Co., founder and first president of Investment Bankers' Association of America; of heart disease; in Bronxville...
Walking in Washington's Rock Creek Park while his wife waited in their car, hale George Brinton McClellan, 67, three-career man (New York City's one-time Mayor and Congressman, Princeton professor, author), namesake son of the famed Civil War General, tried to cross the narrow creek bed. slipped on the concrete bottom, breaking his leg. For half an hour before his wife heard him he lay half under water, unable to rise, calling for help...