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Northwestern's child prodigies, who were selected in a blaze of glory and then carefully cloaked from vulgar inquiry, have come once more, and in a very fitting manner, to the attention of all. The senior of their number, now seventeen, has just been elected to Phi-Beta Kappa, with a truly prodigious grade average and amid appropriate eclat. Northwestern seems to feel that this vindicates the essential wisdom of her experiment, and even Dr. Flexner declares that he is reminded of his old dream of a prodigy high school in New York...
...point, around which not so great a welter of discussion has been raised, is the longevity of college athletes, to which the report adds valuable information. Their findings that the sportsman will live no longer than his non-competing classmate and not as long as the Phi-Beta Kappa bear out to a large degree the statements of the I. C. A. A. A. A. on the subject, which were published last year. The statistics themselves, however, must naturally have been compiled from the generations before the turn of the century, and cannot reflect the increased medical supervision, intelligent coaching...
...ball team of the University Chapter of the Phi-Beta Kappa lost to the Yale team yesterday afternoon by the score of 8-7. The score was even in the last half of the ninth, when Davis knocked out a home-run, winning the game for the Eli keymen...
President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University has been chosen orator, and Mr. George Cabot Lodge '95 poet for the anniversary meeting of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi-Beta Kappa Society, which will be held in Sanders Theatre, on Thursday, June 28, the day after Commencement...
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