Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investigations of the Phi Beta Kappa elections for the past five years yield in part the statistical results given above, which are of some significance in view of the change this year. As will readily be seen, the old quota of 45 did not allow all of the Magna and Summa men in a class to be elected to the society. The new quota of 65 however, gives opportunity for the election of all these high honor men, in an ordinary year, since in only one year in the past five have the Magnas and Summas awarded exceeded...
...honored by the society. Since the men elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the end of the Senior year are elected purely on a basis of the divisional award of Magnas and Summas, the Cum members of the society come exclusively from the ranks of those elected before the end of the Senior year, that is, from the men elected on the basis of their course grades. It is, perhaps, significant that of the men so elected, 28 percent were Cum men; and figures not included in the table above show that over half of the Cum men of this...
...figures of the last two years brings out the above points as well as certain others less definite. In 1927 for instance only 41 men were elected out of a possible 45, and in 1928 only 42 in spite of the fact that a large percentage of Magna and Summa men were not chosen. In 1927, that is, instead of the usual 38 percent, 55 percent of the Magna and Summa men were not admitted to Phi Beta Kappa
...mighty Anaconda itself which carried the Carson case, last August, to the U. S. Supreme Court. Chief Counsel Charles Evans Hughes argued earnestly that side-charging furnaces had been used before the Desert Rat won his patents. Dubious, the Magna Copper Co. of Ari zona did not wait for the decision, settled last fortnight with Carson's backers for $75,000 and an arrangement for future use of the patents. And last week, the Supreme Court briefly denied Anaconda's petition. Holding the battle at length won. the Carson Investment Co. announced that only the labor of accounting...
...Beta Kappa. Abolish the Junior eight. Elect eight men in the Senior year, and then elect no more till honors are announced, when all men who get magna or summa degrees should be picked. This method will eliminate to some extent the too great proportion of 'grinds' in the Phi Bete, and replace them by men who are capable of thinking as well as of 'grinding.' It will thus increase the prestige of the society and in this way further scholarship among the student body...