Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each other in the singles final. It was a match they had played many times before, on the same courts. Hines, steadier and stronger overhead, lost the first set. then used the advantage of Wright's surprise to win the next two easily. After the rest Wright, a Phi Beta Kappa man who prefers brawn to brain on a tennis court, ran up a 3-1 lead. Hines, steady, methodical, clever, whittled down the lead, took the set, match & title...
...chief object of criticism, however, is the undergraduate himself. The leading editorial heaps scorn upon the "indifferent," the "deb-chasers," and the "grade-grubbers," while special articles expose the short-comings of the "final" club men and the Phi Beta Kappa. The case of the "final" club men seems even more hopeless. The critic of final club mentality is uncertain whether their low scholastic standing, for which statistical proof is offered, is the consequence of congenital mental inferiority or absorption in social activities or general "indifference." In other articles a tribute is paid to the commercial tutors for their services...
Voting unanimously last night to defer the election of the majority of its members to the end of the Senior year, the undergraduate body of Phi Beta Kappa took an epechal step toward dissipating the belief of many that a gold key does not mean intellectual power, but merely the ability to grind out high course marks. Although any system of selecting men upon whom to confer recognition of scholastic achievement is necessarily fallible, that based primarily on course marks has, at least at Harvard, been demonstrated inadequate and unjust...
...relic of the days when courses offered the only field in which the application of intellect and effort could be measured. The University recognized the existence of a better test years ago, and accordingly shifted the requirements for honor degrees to conspicuous achievement in Divisional examinations and honors theses. Phi Beta Kappa, with a conservatism born of long tradition, has until now refused to read the handwriting on the wall. The approval of the new system, while allowing the maintenance in a restricted form of an undergraduate nucleus, may well mean a new birth of life and vigor...
Recommendation for a change in the method of electing members to the Phi Beta Kappa Society was approved at a meeting of the undergraduates of the society last night in Leverett House Common Room. The new measure has four points: 1. That eight Juniors be admitted after midyears. 2. That 16 Senior be admitted at the beginning of the Senior year. 3. That between 40 and 50 Seniors be admitted at the end of the Senior year at the discretion of the electors. 4. That, to the undergraduates group which now does the electing be added 7 graduate members, including...