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...Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, founded in 1915 to supervise the work of backward students, has just been organized for the current year. Leonard Wheeler Jr. '22 has been appointed chairman of the board, the other members of which are W. G. Brocker ocC., D. P. Ferguson '22, F. T. Pratt '22, and W. T. Salter 1M., all of the University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. This board will be assisted by 18 associates, who will be men of high standing, many of them members of the Phi Beta Kappa...
Plans are now under way at the Engineering School for the establishment of a chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. This is a national institution formed as an honorary engineering society, corresponding to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity at the academic schools. As in the Phi Beta Kappa, eligibility to the society will be based mainly on scholarship, but general ability will also be considered in the selection of members...
...local Phi Beta Kappa award for preparatory schools, based on entrance examination records, is of twofold value: It stimulates interest toward higher scholastic standing; and rewards sound training in the school by helping to establish its reputation for teaching. Kent School, the winner this year, is to be congratulated...
...fitness to build on that groundwork--his character or his abstract ability to study. They have long been accepted grudgingly as a necessary evil; one of their worst faults is an incentive to study for the examinations rather than for knowledge, and this undesirable feature the Phi Beta Kappa prize would seem to emphasize...
...highest average in their first year of college work. Such a plan fulfills all the purpose of our present award further mark it is a more accurate basis of judgement; and it encourages serious minded students to continue in college a good preparatory record. No doubt the Phi Beta Kappa prize fulfills a merited purpose; but this purpose is narrow. It is to be hoped that another award may be established which will be based on a less limited test of the training given by the school...