Word: election
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Early in the spring the CRIMSON considered at some length the question of encouraging sentiment for scholarship at Harvard. Among its recommendations at the time was one that Phi Beta Kappa elect men entirely according to their records at the College Office...
...first place, as was pointed out in the editorial of March 21, the impression is prevalent that it elects on a flexible basis of personality and general achievement from among the high-stand men of the class; whereas, except in proven cases of dishonesty, it seldom deviates from the ordered ranking of men according to their marks or the distinction of their degrees. Naturally it suffers. No one can think highly of the judgment of a society which, appearing to elect men somewhat according to personality, elects them almost entirely on the basis of official records. The announcements...
What that position should be is open to argument. We believe that its real position at present is the right one. It should elect men on a competitive standard of scholarship, official records--faulty as they are--being in the long run the best tests of scholarship. The thirty-five highest-stand men of a class, say, should be automatically elected with possibly five more after the announcement of prizes and degrees at the end of the Senior year. If the eight to thirty-five men to whom the responsibility of perpetuating Phi Beta Kappa is yearly entrusted were omniscient...
...outlook for a strong tennis team to centre around Captain-elect R. N. Williams '16 is far from discouraging. Four men will enter the intercollegiate tournament at Haverford, Pa., in September, and trials for this quartet four will be held early in that month. These four will serve as a nucleus for the University squad next year...
...that has been possible heretofore. It is confidently hoped that the Dormitories will enrich the experience of the men who pass through them. It is likely that they will also intensify social consciousness. Therefore if the clubs were to invade each Freshman class and split it up into the elect and the non-elect, the chosen, the anxiously expectant and the hopelessly ignored, a tendency quite opposite to the purpose of the Dormitories would set at work. The agreement already guarantees that the Freshman class will be pretty completely relieved of this danger. The danger will be entirely eliminated...