Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate against Yale and Princeton automatically become members of Delta Sigma Phi, the debating fraternity, and recipients of the Coolidge medal. The Coolidge prize of $100 is awarded to the man doing the best work in these debates...
Since a Dartmouth undergraduate refused to become a member of the Phi Beta Kappa on the ground that college grades were no criterion of real ability, there has been revealed evidence from two sources that his stand is not justified by the facts. President Lowell, in his speech at Yale last week, stated that he had found that the graduates making the greatest successes in after life had done well in college studies while the prevalent opinion that extra-curriculum activities were more valuable as a preparation for later life has no basis for its claims. President Lowell has carried...
Though nothing may become the college life of a Senior like the leaving of it, it is still clear that the competition for Commencement speaking parts affords others than Phi Beta Kappa men opportunity for a last gesture. Many traditions that have no justification, even as adornment, in the swift life of a busy university may sink to a deserved death in the Lethe stream, but that one of the fine appurtenances of the student's farewell to his college should fall into innocuous desuetude is a condition to be deplored, and remedied...
...Phi Beta Kappa. Charles Allen Eastman, Dartmouth senior, refused last week an election to Phi Beta Kappa. His reason: "The present system of marks does not show the true ability of a student." He was the first student in Dartmouth history to decline...
...Eastman's opinion of Phi Beta Kappa in particular appears to be rather typical of the present critical attitude of students toward scholastic standards. But, whatever one's opinion of these standards, they nevertheless exist; and the fact that Phi Beta Kappa must conform to them does not mean that it approves of them. Mr. Eastman's rejection of what seems to him a hollow honor is praiseworthy enough morally; but it seems that he is confusing the empty titles so much beloved these days with a distinction that is real. It is to be hoped that his action will...