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...whose eligibility was incontestable. As years went on this number increased from five to ten and even to 15. This power granted the electing body to search beneath the College grades and to recognize less regular but definite intellectual successes succeeded as calculated in making membership in Phi Beta Kappa a still greater honor than it had been before...
...fourth successive year, the Boston Latin School of which Mr. Patrick T. Campbell is headmaster, has won the Scholarship Trophy offered by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The competition is open to all schools in the United States which prepare not less than seven boys for college, but a competing school need not send any of its boys to Harvard...
...editorial "Phi Beta Kappa Selections", you mention "the failure of many Phi Beta Kappa men elected on the basis of course grades, to attain more than a general or special cum at graduation." Failure to attain (if you really want to go so far as to call it all that) a special cum may indicate either incompetence on the part of the Phi Beta Kappa man, or a sudden fatigue of academic honors. There is, however, no failure at all about obtaining a general cum, that implying rather a complete unwillingness to be tutored and specialized to the extent that...
...policy of the University is of course tending more and more towards the recognition of distinctive work in special fields; in fact, that is why the number of men admitted to Phi Beta Kappa has been increased; and this conceivably explains how the realization escaped the CRIMSON that many men who might have boned out a magna were simply conscientious objectors to the whole theory behind...
Summa Summarum, though a man may know Shakespeare note by note, and can get a summa for it, why must he be inflicted on Phi Beta Kappa--the organization is notoriously weak...