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...believe I would not be incorrect in assessing election to PBK as the second highest academic honor Harvard College can bestow. If so, the Society should act less like a Final Club, and more like an honorary society. It is well known amongst those eligible--chiefly, the consistent Group II's--that in all cases, save those with straight A's to show, election is strongly dependent on two factors: one's friends in the Society, and/or among the Society's faculty advisers. As I understand it, faculty recommendations carry strong weight, and each member has "blackball" power over...
Howard S. Nemerov '41, post and novelist, will be the poet for the PBK ceremonies. Nemerov is presently teaching at Bennington College, and has been appointed professor at Brandeis University. He served recently as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress...
...PBK Literary Exercises...
...Third, PBK should make sure that an elector concentrating in the candidates field and another elector in the candidate's House talk with each candidate about his interests before the elections of the Eight and Sixteen. Unless a candidate leads his class, if no one in PBK knows him he is at a severe disadvantage. Perhaps he is doing independent work, connected with or unrelated to his field, that not even his tutor knows about. Perhaps his tutor doesn't know him, as is usually the case with mathematicians. On the other hand perhaps he studies nothing but Serbo-Croatian...
...PBK could preserve the secrecy which traditionally surrounds its elections by telling electors in advance just the names of the one or two people they are to interview. It could prevent the interviews (ideally...