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...former librarian was a member of a great number of organizations both inside and outside the University. He was president of the American Library Association, head of the Bibliographical Society of America, chairman of the Library Committee of the Harvard Union, secretary of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...colleges whose praise means as little as that of his own, what does the campus king get when he leaves school? Usually the men for whom he wants to work have never heard of the Green Look Society, of the Back to the Campus Committee, or of the Alpha Kappa Beta Fraternity upon which he has lavished his time. The numerous council meetings which had to be attended on the nights that reports fell due, to the detriment of reports, are things of the past to the graduate. They are pleasant memories, perhaps, if the student happens to fancy brilliant...
...consciously working toward any specific objective, college is more than an empty last resource. The comparatively leisurely life of the undergraduate is a welcome boon to those who are anxious to investigate as many of life's possibilities as they can. Though hundreds of students, Phi Beta Kappa as well as C men, are graduated in unconcerned ignorance of those widely different possibilities, other hundreds profit by the leisure of college to look at their future through more than one lens...
Late that night burly Ann Arbor policemen shoved their way into five fraternity houses (Phi Delta Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Theta Delta Chi), wakened the torpid brothers, searched their rooms for liquor. They found 50 quarts of whiskey, gin, wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa...
...follows: "1. The men who are working their way through Princeton achieve scholastic standing higher than their classmates, and almost identical with their estimated ability. 2. They do not receive their full share of Freshman flunks. 3. They receive more than their full share of Phi Beta Kappa memberships and departmental honors. 4. Even those men who are giving the most time to student employment stand higher scholastically than their classmates who are not working, though in the case of Senior managers of major agencies, their standing is slightly below other Seniors in student employment." Furthermore, no evidence has been...