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...another page are given some of the facts regarding election to Phi Beta Kappa. The honor society's method of selection is its own concern; yet it represents an interest in which all the students share, and undergraduates criticisms are perhaps worth considering. These criticisms are few: it is recognized that the only fair basis of choice for a scholarly society is scholarship, and that non-intellectual activities cannot be counted except when the scholastic records of two candidates are equal. But the complaint may reasonably be made that the society is too limited in its numbers...
...other point needs to be made. The present rule calls for only five elections after the awarding of degrees, yet it is conceivable that more than five seniors not already members of Phi Beta Kappa will receive degrees with special distinction. It seems a pity that an arbitrary limit should admit some and exclude others whose records show them to be equally deserving. A motion now pending would eliminate that fault. These are small matters, but everything that strengthens the University's confidence in the justice of the chapter's election system is a gain for the value...
Five additional members from the class of 1923 were elected yesterday to the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The choice was based on records through mid-years of this year; according to the society's constitution it was the purpose of this election to make allowance for records which were incomplete at the regular November election through illness, transfer or similar causes. A final election will be held during Commencement Week, at which degrees with distinction and other scholastic honors will be considered. The customary number to be chosen at that time is five, bringing the membership total...
...First Marshal for 1923, who leads the undergraduates of the University chapter at the Phi Beta Kappa Day exercises on June 22, is Henry Jacob Friendly '23, of Elmira, N.Y. The Secretary and Second Marshal is Jeffries Wyman Jr. '23, of Cambridge. Gerald Garvey Dolphin '24, of Scranton, Pa., has been chosen by the Junior Eight as secretary for next year, and Francis Ezra Bowman '24, of Cleveland Heights, O., will be in charge of the Tutoring Bureau...
Word was received recently that the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has accepted the University chapter's challenge for a baseball game, which has been an annual custom in past years, but was omitted in 1922. The game this year will be played at Soldiers Field on Saturday, June...