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...clubs had the same interests, but the matter was settled through diplomacy, and the Arionic Sodality became extinct. Occasionally the records mention other clubs which still exist. In June, 1844, two members cut rehearsals as they preferred to attend a cat-fight in the Phi Beta Kappa rooms...
...blue-ribbon incentive is often talked about in plans for stimulating scholarship. Phi Beta Kappa and other honor societies, prizes, fellowships, positions of honor as offered for high standing-all promote a competitive spirit in student bodies. For these guerdons, however, the competition is an individual affair-each man for himself...
Last week, a new vehicle for the blue-ribbon incentive was brought forward by one Robert S. Hale, Chairman of a committee of Harvard Phi Beta Kappa which has been investigating scholarship in secondary schools. Mr. Hale reported and his society adopted a plan for the establishment of an Interscholastic Scholarship Cup, to be contested by teams of students from every high school and academy in the U. S." The award-a bronze plaque-will go to that school whose team passes the seven highest college board examinations each June. The school winning most often in the next seven years...
...announcement of the scholarship trophy to be awarded to preparatory schools by Phi Beta Kappa starts a novel train of speculation. It has been customary to regard scholarship as of too individual a nature to make organized competition either possible or interesting. A man studies for his own good. If there is any thought at all of a benefit to be conferred on his school through his personal excellence in scholarship, it is an afterthought. Just because studying is purely personal--one might almost call it a development of one's egoism--it has been necessary in both schools...
...Sociology at Tufts University and Chairman of the League for Democratic Control. He is director of the National Economics League, Massachusetts branch, an ordained minister of the Universalist Church. He took the degree M.A. from St. Lawrence University in 1904, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society...