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...undergraduate members of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Chapter will hold the second of their series of informal dinners tomorrow night at 6.30 at the Union. A number of the faculty will be entertained at each of these bi-weekly dinners, and Professor T. N. Carver will be the first speaker. The meeting will be over at an early hour, and after this there will be an informal discussion for those wishing to remain...
...difficult for a man who excels in neither of these fields to obtain the highest recognition; but many minor aids can be given to raise the position of the scholar in the college. One of these would be to provide the caps and gowns of members of Phi Beta Kappa with a distinguishing mark similar to the red tassel of the class officers...
...became almost a tradition at Yale for Senior classes to vote Phi Beta Kappa the most desirable attainment for which undergraduates may compete. The failure of last year's Senior class to vote it so created almost as great consternation among the orthodox as had the failure of their immediate predecessors to uphold the desirability of compulsory chapel. But of those who each year recorded their vote for the supremacy of Phi Beta Kappa, how many, when confronted with the choice between curriculum and extra-curriculum earlier in their college careers, actually chose the former? It isn't necessary...
Wisdom comes to Seniors by devious paths, however, and though so few would, even if they had the choice again yield the apple to Minerva, the traditional vote for Phi Beta Kappa is extremely rational. One comes to college, after all, to be educated; if the curriculum is education, why then, Phi Beta Kappa is the mark of success in curricular pursuits--and most to be desired. Unfortunately, the hypothesis that the curriculum in itself constitutes education is the weak link in the chain of this logic; for it is too obvious that the curriculum is but a part very...
Class officers should inform the men at the Cooperative when they are being measured, in order that red braid and tassel may be put on their outfit. There will be no extra charge for this. It is especially important that class officers and members of Phi Beta Kappa be measured promptly, as caps and gowns must be worn when the group pictures are taken for the Senior Album...