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...believe I would not be incorrect in assessing election to PBK as the second highest academic honor Harvard College can bestow. If so, the Society should act less like a Final Club, and more like an honorary society. It is well known amongst those eligible--chiefly, the consistent Group II's--that in all cases, save those with straight A's to show, election is strongly dependent on two factors: one's friends in the Society, and/or among the Society's faculty advisers. As I understand it, faculty recommendations carry strong weight, and each member has "blackball" power over...
...This club-like election ritual has had some distasteful results. For example, of four history concentrators in my House with very similar records, the two who had close friends in PBK were elected; the other two (including myself), who had different interests, different friends, and in certain ways, better records, were not elected. Upon questioning other sources, I found that such occurrences were not unusual. 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; men who had dropped theses, but had friends, had made...
...contention is that PBK should act either like an honorary society or like a Final Club (for those of certain interests), but should not be allowed to act as both. I believe that there are those in this impressionable world who might be led to believe that a PBK member from Harvard was necessarily a better student than one who was not a member. Under present conditions, this assumption is simply not true. Why not scrap this behind-the-scenes "hocuspocus" and determine election by objective means: by giving a certain weight to (1) the student's average...
Both coaches expressed satisfaction at their club's initial outing, and as Friar mentor Tom Hardin commented, "If they'd had Stempson and Baker, it would probably have been decided by one point, like last year's race...
Support from the Club. Though many businessmen were miffed by Johnson's Indian-giver tactics on the 7% tax credit, his proposal was endorsed in testimony before Chairman Wilbur Mills's House Ways and Means Committee by three corporate chiefs: A.T. & T.'s Frederick Kappel, the Pennsylvania Railroad's Stuart Saunders and Campbell Soup's William Murphy. They agreed to testify under pressure. Commerce Secretary John Connor phoned Murphy, urged him to testify and to recruit other members of the President's "club" of business advisers to come...