Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced in the CRIMSON of November 5 in an article by O. S. Loud '29, first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is this year increasing the number of men elected from each class from 45 to 65. This change restores the old proportion of Phi Beta Kappa men per class that has been lost in recent years through the growth of the college, and in the future it will allow Phi Beta Kappa to take roughly a tenth from each class instead of a thirteenth or a fourteenth as has lately been...
...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 65, and the average number has been 57. Further study of the above figures, however, discloses that Phi Beta Kappa has failed in two ways in the last five years to take in even as many Magna and Summa men as its old quota of 45 permitted. Firstly, in only one year of the five considered...
...Semitic Museum has come the archaeological and inscriptional material. The inscribed clay tablets, some two thousand in number, rank first in importance. It is understood that we shall return a portion of these to the Museum at Bagdad, after publication of the inscriptions in this country. From some hundreds found in one of the rooms excavated, Professor Chiera, while still at Nuzi, selected 107 and copied them on 100 plates. These will appear at an early date as a volume of the "Harvard Semitic Series...
...attracting world-wide attention. Here are prospects bright enough to arouse the slowest imagination. Many institutions, American, English, French, German, are wide awake. Dr. Pfeiffer has just written from Bagdad: "There are to be seven archeological expeditions besides our own in Iraq this year, they say the greatest number of excavations ever known and the best equipped...
...assigning the rooms, a maximum of 12 men will be put in one group as they applied. These large groups will be given preference over smaller ones. The applications will first be sorted according to the number of men in each group. The rooms will then be assigned by lot to different groups of the same size instead of by order of preference, the method employed formerly...