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...night to defer the election of the majority of its members to the end of the Senior year, the undergraduate body of Phi Beta Kappa took an epechal step toward dissipating the belief of many that a gold key does not mean intellectual power, but merely the ability to grind out high course marks. Although any system of selecting men upon whom to confer recognition of scholastic achievement is necessarily fallible, that based primarily on course marks has, at least at Harvard, been demonstrated inadequate and unjust...
...desirable as a leavening influence in education, as in anything else. Under the rigid system of the past many students were either completely bored or unable to cope with the curriculum. Today such students have a variety of interests offered to them, so that school is less of a grind and more in accord with the teaching ideal of Montaigne--to inspire the pupil rather than to drive...
...substantiated by the Auburn-South Carolina game this week. Navy got only four first downs to Notre Dame's 20, rushed 71 yd. to Notre Dame's 282 but it was so stubborn near its own goal line that two Notre Dame teams were lucky to grind out two touchdowns at Cleveland, 12-to-0. Pitt found Carnegie Tech a touchdown harder than Notre Dame, a touchdown easier than Nebraska, 6-to-0 in a sooty Pittsburgh snowstorm. Coach Ike Armstrong's Utah team, which has not lost a Rocky Mountain Conference game since...
...book was written over the summer by the author, who attempts to repute the many charges brought against football by prominent writers and critics, that the game, as played in college, is nothing less than a more grind which is of little benefit to the players. Wood, who is well qualified to express his opinions on the game, having played for three years on the Harvard Varsity and having been named All American quarter back in 1932 treats the subject from the player's point of view. It does not consist of a player's random reminis cences...
...founder of the American Nurses' Aviation Service, organized to serve in time of floods, storms and other disasters. It was as a representative of A. N. A. S. that Nurse Newcomer, a licensed pilot, joined the flight. She expected to spell Pilot Ulbrich on the 40-hour grind to Rome. When the plane passed over Florence, Italy, Nurse Newcomer, who had taken lessons in parachute jumping, planned to bail out as a gesture in honor of First Nurse Florence Nightingale. Dressed in a white riding habit, she carried a dress which she forgot at the last moment...