Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long as politicians control education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened public servant and uttered before presumptive students, had all the carmarks of political device. Mr. Cross was content...
Drastic changes in the method of election to Phi Beta Kappa will be put into effect this year, it was learned yesterday. Election of the Junior Eight has been postponed from November to March; a new election committee has been appointed, consisting of eight undergraduates and seven graduates, in place of the former committee of eight undergraduates; and excellence in tutorial work will be weighed more heavily than ever before, even for the Junior Eight...
...Crane Brinton '19, corresponding secretary of the Harvard chapter. The elected members, who hold the position for only one year, are Mason Hammond '25, instructor and tutor in Ancient Languages, Charles C. Abbott '28, instructor and tutor in Economics, Seth T. Gano '07, graduate treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa, and Richard C. Curtis '16, prominent Boston lawyer...
...high marks in honors theses and divisional examinations rather than in mere course marks; and the election changes have been planned to this end. A survey of honor men for the last 12 years showed that approximately 200 men graduated magna cum laude, but did not make Phi Beta Kappa, while 100 members of the Society received only cum laude degrees. Nine Phi Beta Kappa men received no honor degree...
...Beta Kappas, in whose learned magazine The American Scholar this description of a future face appeared this week. know Dr. Thomas Hall Shastid of Duluth. as a serious, prodigious eye specialist, lawyer, novelist, translator, editor, inventor, pacifist.* His pastime is to visit zoos with an ophthalmoscope with which he peers into the eyes of fish, birds, snakes and beasts. Doing likewise, remarks he in his Phi Beta Kappa article, "will prove an event in the lives of most scientists. Nor, strange to say, are very many animals averse to the use on their eyes of that instrument of investigation...