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James P. Baxter III '14, of Williamtown, former President of Williams College. Robert F. Loeb, M.D. '19, of New York City, Bard Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Coumbia and member of the President's Science Adivsory Committee...
...home study courses] of Columbia is for the most part not education. No single institution can educate 20,000 people by mail, or indeed, in any other way. The whole thing is a business . . . out of which Columbia has made in a single year a profit of $300,000. . . . Coumbia possesses not 48,000 students,* but on a generous estimate, perhaps 4,000. [A student may get degree credit by taking courses in] 'poultry-raising,' 'wrestling, judo and self-defense.' Is this not an appalling situation?" Harvard may some day change its motto from "Veritas...
...Coumbia 'varsity crew this year will only average 160 pounds, making it the lightest crew Columbia has put on the water for years...
...original chapter has long been defunct, as is now the college itself. Twenty-two chapters now exist, being, in the order of the establishmen, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Union, Bowdoin, Brown, Trinity, Weslyan, Adelbert, Vermont, Amherst, University City of New York, Kenyon, Williams, College City of New York, Middlebury, Coumbia, Rutgers, Hamilton, Hobart, Madison, Cornell. Long before 1825, however, when the earliest of the modern societies was founded, Phi Beta Kappa had ceased to be a secret organization and became, as now, an honorary literary society, to which are elected the honor men of each class. In most of the chapters...
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