Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...conclude that although the scholar's key is no longer-the most popular thing in New Haven, the intellectual health of the inmates is not altogether impaired. Than Mr. Heywood Broun, in his part of the World (New York) utters plaints about the present rush of youthful Eli poets to print, and mourns that all Harvard has is a rush of Crimson pigskin chasers to a certain end of a certain kind of a field under certain conditions...
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...
...these Captain Morris Duane '23, R. N. Bradley '22, J. C. Guild '23, J. D. Farnham '23 and C. P. Holmes '22 are letter men, D. McK, Key '22 was a member of last year's squad, and K.S. Pfaffman '24 captained the 1924 team last season. No attempt has been made to rank the players, Coach Williams stressing the practice of form above all else...