Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received in competition helped rather than hindered scholastic work was proved by the record of the 1924 CRIMSON Board of Editors, which I ran across in one of the University CRIMSON. Not only did six of the editors graduate with honors, but four of them were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society...
...Victory or die!" Oh! yes, but to play only to win is the certain sign of poor sportmanship; and to study solely for high grades and Phi Beta Kappa is the displeasing brand of a "grind". Somewhere must He Aristotle's golden mean! It has been found in the realm of college athletics by a gradual building up of a commendable code of ethics and traditions, whose force becomes apparent if any competing team breaks its iron laws. But in the realm of scholarship it is otherwise...
...other day that you didn't hit English 28 very well; I'll bet a French franc to a Russian ruble you shaved that morning. Cut shaving, Bill; look at me: if I only had a little heavier growth and a less well-trained razor I'd be a Phi Beta...
...viewpoint which many college men hold, as expressed by W. H. Cowley, a former member of Dartmouth's student committee on the curriculum: 'Our professors stand on platforms like little gods and speak in pale blue voices, and when blue book time comes, we regurgitate. . . . Phi Beta Kappa scholarship is all pure memory work, parrot education...
...they do not learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy of U. S. scholarship, is as useless as its emblem, a watch...