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...rule of Syracuse University which prevents students unable to swim from graduating has at last achieved dramatic importance. Miss Bernice Goldstein, of Oneonta, N. Y., a member of the scholastic fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa, will be unable to graduate because she cannot learn to swim. Whether the rule is due to love of Greek culture or fear of an-other flood is not known...
There has been some discussion recently as to the method of election to Phi Beta Kappa and it has been urged that the present and traditional method be changed in order to elect "promising" or "original" men whose marks are not good enough to earn the distinction. This proposed method was tried at Yale about twenty years ago and proved a complete failure. It was abandoned and the old order restored. There are enough extra-curriculum activities at Yale already and the rewards for success in them are sufficiently alluring so that it seems hardly advisable to ask Phi Beta...
Miss Lowell, widely known as a poet and novelist has spoken in all parts of the country. In 1920, the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters was bestowed on her by Baylor University, while she was appointed Phi Beta Kappa poet by Tufts College...
...next President of the United States will be Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton University-because he sat at the right of Professor William Lyon Phelps at the annual Phi Beta Kappa dinner in New Haven. As toastmaster of the gathering, Professor Phelps pointed...
...when I was toastmaster at the Phi Beta Kappa banquet, William Howard Taft, then Secretary of War, sat at my right. When Tracy Peck made the speech in Latin, he predicted Taft would be the next President. From that moment Taft's chances became good...