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...Take twelve Phi Beta Kappa men and twelve football men 25 years after their graduation from the University of California. Of the footballers, nine are living (one was murdered, one died of tuberculosis, one of cancer) and one is in Who's Who. Of the "Phi Betes," ten are living (one was murdered, one died of tuberculosis) and all twelve...
...Louis Israel Dublin, statistician for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., discovered by investigating 38,269 Eastern college graduates that Phi Beta Kappa men and honor students live longer than athletes and plain graduates...
...Beta Kappa is aware that some of its members, on the strength of these statistics, feel faintly "better-than-thou." Last fortnight it published a manifesto...
...Laying aside its aloofness, Phi Beta Kappa aligns itself with those who are seeking to lead the world out of its slough of despond. For the first time in 150 years this erudite?some even call it snobbish? society of college and university intellectuals faces the world with a declaration...
...Beta Kappa's declaration appeared last week in the form of a neat, handsome quarterly called The American Scholar ($2 the year). Highbrow but spirited, the Scholar will publish no fiction, will seek scholarly but not too technical articles, occasional verse. Its point of view may become as various as that of its board of ten editors, who include Dean Ada Louise Comstock of Radcliffe, President William Allan Neilson of Smith, smart Author John Erskine. popular Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton, Editor Will David Howe of Scribners', Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times. Editor-in-chief...