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There, was a time when the elections to Phi Beta Kappa were quite an arbitrary affair. The twenty men or more in the class who had received the greatest number of As were elected in order of their rank, according to the figures in the College office. No man was considered for election from outside this select group of scholars. For some years to attempt was made to broaden the qualifications for membership and the result was the society narrowed down into a group of men similar to those recently described by President Hadley of Yale as "professional scholars." Another...
...standing in the Junior class, and not more than 22 are to be chosen from the 44 highest members of the Senior class. Thus an opportunity is given to base the election on ability and not necessarily on priority in rank alone. It is not stipulated that the entire number be elected and if the society cannot find eight and twenty-two men respectively in the lists referred to they are obliged to take only those men who fulfill their idea of the requirements. In addition, five men are to be chosen from the Senior class who would...
There are two things in this number of the Advocate that are distinctly worth while. The first is an article by a Princeton undergraduate upon that university's preceptorial system; the second, a story by Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez called "A Purple Patch," and much better than its name would lead one to expect. The article gives clearly and persuasively an account of the tutorial method used at Princeton, its faults as well as its virtues, and leaves an impression, strengthened by the editorial, that Harvard would do very well to have something of the sort here, which would give...
...rest of the number is ordinary in comparison with these. "The Taming of the Shrew" is a Robert Chambers tale of a southern man and a college cousin who emerge, like Shadrach and Abednego, from a very vivid forest fire to find themselves engaged. "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Art," is a typical college essay of the lighter sort, pleasant, facile, well-written, and without much significance...
There is little verse, and that too is not as good as the Advocate has published. "To Peggy's Hat" is frankly Lampoon verse; "Kipling on a Spree" is much what its name signifies, a rather good imitation; and "Ecstasy," by Mr. Greene, the best in the number for its sure phrasing of the beauty of night, is a translation from Hugo. Surely the College can offer better and more original verse than any of these three printed. But the feeling of disappointment is overbalanced by the distinctly significant work of Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez and the Princeton writer