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Voting unanimously last 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...
...days when courses offered the only field in which the application of intellect and effort could be measured. The University recognized the existence of a better test years ago, and accordingly shifted the requirements for honor degrees to conspicuous achievement in Divisional examinations and honors theses. Phi Beta Kappa, with a conservatism born of long tradition, has until now refused to read the handwriting on the wall. The approval of the new system, while allowing the maintenance in a restricted form of an undergraduate nucleus, may well mean a new birth of life and vigor for the Society...
Recommendation for a change in the method of electing members to the Phi Beta Kappa Society was approved at a meeting of the undergraduates of the society last night in Leverett House Common Room. The new measure has four points: 1. That eight Juniors be admitted after midyears. 2. That 16 Senior be admitted at the beginning of the Senior year. 3. That between 40 and 50 Seniors be admitted at the end of the Senior year at the discretion of the electors. 4. That, to the undergraduates group which now does the electing be added 7 graduate members, including...
Northwestern's child prodigies, who were selected in a blaze of glory and then carefully cloaked from vulgar inquiry, have come once more, and in a very fitting manner, to the attention of all. The senior of their number, now seventeen, has just been elected to Phi-Beta Kappa, with a truly prodigious grade average and amid appropriate eclat. Northwestern seems to feel that this vindicates the essential wisdom of her experiment, and even Dr. Flexner declares that he is reminded of his old dream of a prodigy high school in New York...
This new step should supplement the American scholar in presenting the work of Phi Beta kappa to the world. It can scarcely be denied that whatever constructive movements may have been furthered individually by its members, the casual character of its alumni organization has made it difficult to assess the productivity of the society as a whole. The lack of emphasis upon the social features of its collegiate branches, in itself appropriate, has had the result of leaving it heterogeneous and disunified. It is to be hoped that this alumni fusion will facilitate important collective contributions to intellectual activity. Certainly...