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...some, college is an amusing four years, to some it means a Phi Beta Kappa key or an education, and to still others it is only four years of dull preparation for a life of banking or insurance. The last attitude has been increasing, to judge by the hue and cry recently raised about the passing of the old "cultural college". That business men, however, regard colleges as mere training schools for their assistants and successors becomes rather doubtful in view of Mr. Emerson's article in the current issue of "The Independent...
...Beta Kappa Key Losing Prestige?--Vote of Yale Seniors for 'Y' in Preference to Historic Watch Charm Raises Sensational Questions." Such is the headline of an article in the New York "Evening Post" which discusses the sensational question--and concludes thus: "Meanwhile the life of the undergraduate as a whole carries on as before. The 'News', in the same number with its editorial on the Phi Beta Kappa matter, prints front page articles on the election of a wrestling captain and the progress of the crews on the Housatonic (this last was reported slow). There is also a traditional plea...
...moral; it is, briefly, that as a result of marks and Phi Beta Kappa keys having been considered high in value for themselves, rather than as symbols, general opinion everywhere--the New Havon vote and the Vassar student's refusal of election are only recent examples--has reacted; now that Phi Beta Kappa, man must prove himself. This is generally true, although at New Haven it may be the old confict between brains and scholastic Dadaism. Let Mr. Broun and the N. Y. Evepost answer this; we are satisfied so long as our own Phi Beta Kappas wear their keys...
Something of a sensation has been caused in academic circles by the announcement that the senior class at Yale College has expressed its preference for a "Y" over a Phi, Beta Kappa key as the most desirable academic honor, thereby abandoning a tradition of many years. The figures are, to be exact, 81 to 66 in favor of the "Y", the understanding being that party affiliations have been obliterated in the issue, Republicans and Democrats voting miscellaneously. The key, it is true, comes in a good second, but a good second is small comfort for the loss of what...
...generations, right back into the blood-and-iron days of the nineties and early nineteen-hundreds, the days, of turtle neck sweaters and pale ale, of law term grades and high batting averages, the Yale senior has invariably made graceful gesture in favor of the Phi Beta Kappa key--at least on the statistical blank handed about the class a few weeks before graduation. As to which honor he has spent most of his time pursuing during the preceding four years, that is perhaps another story. Even if he did spent more time chasing the fleet football than what...