Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth Senior, Charles A. Eastman, has declined membership in Phi Beta Kappa, thereby gaining not a little publicity, and furnishing jaded critics of education with enough controversial material to last them for some time. Mr. Eastman states that he does not regard making Phi Beta Kappa as an honor, since he considers that, "the present system of marks in colleges does not show the true ability of a student...
...present critical attitude of students toward scholastic standards. But, whatever one's opinion of these standards, they nevertheless exist; and the fact that Phi Beta Kappa must conform to them does not mean that it approves of them. Mr. Eastman's rejection of what seems to him a hollow honor is praiseworthy enough morally; but it seems that he is confusing the empty titles so much beloved these days with a distinction that is real. It is to be hoped that his action will not be the prologue to a general lowering of the respect in which Phi Beta Kappa...
...found her in delirium and unable to tell her own name. Taken to a sanitarium, she encountered one Fraulein Peutert who soon made the striking announcement that the new patient was the Grand Duchess Tatiana, second daughter of Nicholas the Last. When the Baroness de Buxhaven, onetime Maid of Honor at the Court of Nicholas II, visited the young woman in Berlin and positively declared that she was not Tatiana, it was later announced that she is Anastasia...
...Lawn Tennis Association came out of conference in Chicago with the scroll of honor for 1927. There was little question about the head man and leading lady. As he has done since 1920 William T. Tilden, 2nd, placed first in the ranking list of U. S. tournament tennis players. Helen Wills, struck from the 1926 list by appendicitis, returned to the top of the female troupe. Among the males youth assumed a predominance shocking to spry ancients. In the first ten Tilden, Francis T. Hunter, No. 2, and Manuel Alonso, one-time Spanish subject, No. 4, were the only veterans...
...parade wove through snowy drifts and up to the reviewing stand where oaths of honor were taken. Germany led the goo athletes; French, Austrians, Swiss, Canadians, Czechoslovaks, Mexicans, British, Belgians, Argentines. Scandinavians, and 26 U. S. delegates came after. As the U. S. group were swearing themselves amateurs the storm passed and the sun popped out. Attendants hurried to the hockey rink and busily shooed off the snow. Spectators attended to snowflakes that had sifted down their necks. Two hockey teams in snug tights and jerseys warmed up and stood tense for the face-off. The puck was thrown...