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Your article entitled "Exeter's 150th" in the issue of June 15 was decidedly off-color (if you will pardon me for saying so) in many respects. For your own benefit Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered. This would seem to prove that Exeter is more "potent scholastically" than other schools of its kind, despite your contention to the contrary...
...Monday morning at 11.30 o'clock the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual meeting. The literary exercises in Sanders Theatre, to which the public is invited, will be preceded by a business meeting to be held in Emerson Hall at 10 o'clock. At the Sanders Theatre exercises, the oration will be given by Professor J. H. Beale, and the poet of the society will be Professor Odell Shepard; judge W. C. Wait '82 will preside. A dinner to the society will be served to the--society at 1 o'clock in the Union...
...favorite fiction writers, while in 1921 Jeffrey Farnol, O. Henry and Booth Tarkington best held his attention. He drinks and smokes as he used to, enjoys football to watch and tennis to play, but whereas ten years ago he valued a college letter more than a Phi Beta Kappa key, that choice is now reversed by a vote of 266 to 98. Furthermore, all but a small minority of the class has visited a night club in New York, a point which ten years ago apparently did not occur to the questionnaire makers...
...these answers seem to hear out the contention that the modern undergraduate is a pretty sophisticated young man and at the same time perhaps a bit more serious in his studies--if we may accept the yearning for a Phi Bta Kappa key as genuine--other votes would indicate that he has changed little. We refer to his attitude, of all things, toward poetry. In 1921 his favorite poets were Kipling, Tennyson and Browning; in 1931 they are Browning, Kipling and Tennyson. Ten years ago he voted "If" his favorite poem, followed by Gray's "Elegy"; today he does...
...clock on Monday morning the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual meeting. The literary exercises in Sanders Theatre, to which the public is invited, will be preceeded by a business meeting to be held in Emerson Hall at 10 o'clock. At the Sanders Theatre exercises, the oration will be given by J. H. Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law, and the poet will be Professor Odell Shepard of Trinity College; the President of the Society, Judge W. C. Wait '82, will be the presiding officer. A dinner will be served to the Society...