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Election to Tau Beta Pi is the highest scholastic honor which can be conferred upon a candidate for the degree of S.B. It is analagous to membership in Phi Beta Kappa for candidates for the A.B. degree...
Those Juniors who have just been elected represent the highest eighth of their class. They swell the total undergraduate membership of the chapter to 17, the other 11 being Seniors...
...mont went West with famed Kit Carson, observed buffalo, ate dog meat, charted the Continental Divide. Returning to Washington where Jessie lay in childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...employers of college graduates have come to the same conclusion, if the report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is to be accepted as typical. From among the ten thousand college graduates employed by that concern, those who ranked highest in college now hold the bighest position on its rolls, while there is found no similar analogy for those who excelled in extra-curriculum work. When allowance is made for the considerable number who are included in both categories, it will be seen that these figures go even farther than President Lowell's in upholding the value of scholastic...
Lord Birkenhead has said of "Tay Pay" that if he had been willing to swerve from his quixotic Irish Nationalism "he could have occupied some of the highest offices of State." Instead he has remained "Tay Pay," a man who, as the friends and causes of his youth have died, has made innumerable new friends but kept the causes that he serves peculiar to himself...