Word: phi
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...request of the Student Council the CRIMSON prints below an account of the various non-athletic organizations in the University. The list includes the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the registered clubs and the papers...
...Phi Beat Kappa Society is the oldest Greek letter society in America. The Harvard chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was founded in 1779. The society endeavors to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments and also by the example and activity of this group of scholars to further the intellectual interests of the whole undergraduate body. The criterion of election is always the candidate's scholarship...
Most damning, however, is the charge that the "sporting attitude" prevails in regard to college courses. Most students are interested in "passing" examinations, or, if their standard is higher, in winning A's for their value in securing scholarships or elections to Phi Beta Kappa. The degree and other honors overshadow the more important interest in the problems of life. This is a serious charge, and one that is ninety per cent. true. In choosing courses today the undergraduate should remember that he is disposing of opportunities for broadening and deepening his intellect which will not offer themselves in later...
...Graduates' Magazine makes its quarterly arrival with an assortment of strong articles in addition to a compendious record of recent interests and activities in and concerning the University. The Phi Beta Kappa address by Mr. Rhodes, which commanded such close and pleased attention in Sanders Theatre last June, is preserved in its pages. Mr. Rhodes finds in the steadfastness, humility, and humanity of Lincoln during the dark days of our Civil War an example which may be of value to present European statesmen. The picture which he gives of Lincoln is intimate, kindly yet critical, and suffused with a genial...
More directly related to the war is Mr. Noyes's Phi Beta Kappa poem. He closes a poem symphonic in rythm and melody with a timely call to this nation to continue in the pacific course which has made it great...