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Harvard runners have had a hard time all year breaking up the opposition's secondary. Against Cornell the job they did was ridiculous. Judah Chester took 12th for the Redmen, but the Crimson's last man, Wes Williams, was just 17 seconds behind him. The rest of the Cornell team trotted home dejectedly after Williams...
...important fact was that all factions of the Negro community were represented in TALO. As Chester Wright, an official of the organization, stated, "When we began, we did what the city has never done--we involved people, not a certain class of people. We didn't care if you represented the Society for Crippled Prostitutes. If you represented a body of people you were given a seat, given the same position and dignity of anyone else...
...would like to think that the atrocities Mr. Chester cited ("Men with under 9. averages had been elected, while those close to 11. had been rejected; cum laude candidates had been elected over magna candidates...") all occurred because the electors of PBK refused to couch the administration of honor in Mr. Chester's Procrustean bad. Having been present at the June elections in 1963, '64, and '65, I can vouch that the great majority of these apparent reversals favored a heterogeneity of interests, favored signs of intellectual flare and excitement, over that massive but dull competence which gets...
...Chester is simply incorrect when he says that "each member has 'blackball' power over any candidate." No one does. I have seen both faculty and administration members outvoted by the student electors; one man, one vote. On the other hand, it was true, at least when I was in the Society, that "faculty recommendations carry strong weight" (though it requires contemplation to understand how a weight can be strong rather than heavy). Does Mr. Chester want the Society to reply soley on the grades faculty members give, and not on their more finely articulated comments...
...without doubt, Phi Beta Kappa simply makes mistakes in trying to select the 90 intellectually most powerful members of a class in which six or seven hundred graduate with honors. No one claims PBK is infallible. But neither, fortunately, is it as significant as Mr. Chester inclines to believe. If Mr. Chester is on the losing end of one of PBK's mistakes, let him take consolation in knowing that membership in PBK neither bestows nor rewards greatness. Joel E. Cohen...