Word: phi
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Recognizedly all men cannot be scholars. In the College, however, there has existed and still exists a mistaken disregard of scholarship. Plenty of men of energy and ability in every class never take Phi Beta Kappa seriously, or at least do not take it so until after their chance of winning it is gone. There is something wrong with undergraduate opinion, something beyond the indifference of the unenergetic which is a price of freedom and individualism...
Concerning the question of Phi Beta Kappa and scholarship there is of course no unexceptionable doctrine. Certain members of Phi Beta Kappa have had their conception of life narrowed to books: certain non-members have attained a very full measure of success after graduation. But in the long run the concentration derived from attention to studies has proved the greatest benefit of a college course. To turn the attention of the undergraduate mind more surely to this fact, a number of changes would help. There are two which seem immediately feasible...
...first place Phi Beta Kappa should adopt an absolute basis of scholarship for election. Its elections at present are based, with rare exceptions when a man is known to have attained, his place dishonestly, upon marks. The leading eight men in a class compose the Junior eight; and the next twenty-two, the Senior twenty-two, actual college records determine chiefly the composition of the additional ten. The announcement of its basis, however, says that eight of the first twelve men in the class are elected in Junior year, and twenty-two of the next forty-four in Senior year...
...Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual Commencement meeting on Monday, June 15. The orator of the occasion will be Hon. William Howard Taft, LL.D., '05, D.C.L., of Yale University; Mr. William Bliss Carman, A.B., A. M., LL.D., of New Canaan, Conn., has been chosen poet...
...education, namely to put the student, especially the upperclassman, on his own responsibility in regard to doing his academic work. No better plan for the arrangement of Class Day Week could be devised, with the possible exception of having Class Day on Monday and the Senior Spread and Phi Beta Kappa Day on Tuesday, but this plan was considered of doubtful advantage, except to the Senior members of the baseball team who now have to play in New Haven on Class Day. No plan has been devised for limiting a man's outside work, and the Committee felt that...