Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accept the proviso that opportunity should be left for the election of men to the Society on the basis of final honors, for these are, as well as marks, definite indications of scholarship. For the rest, however, we hold that only cases of dishonesty should prevent the choice of men in order of their standing...
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...
...second place the Freshman should receive more instruction about the opportunities for and rewards of scholarship. He should be told in speeches, through the papers, and in every possible way exactly what Phi Beta Kappa is, what its standards are and what it means; the requirements for a degree with distinction and what it means; and the nature of the First and Second Groups and the innumerable scholarships. At present his advice on the subject is largely indefinite. He is told that scholarship is a fine thing, but not what it requires and what he can derive from...
...must always be remembered that the struggle for a proper valuation of scholarship is a problem of turning the popular opinion of the college, and turning it toward something which the general tone of American life does not favor. The change is a slow one -- we believe that it has been operating with the higher standards of scholarship during the past few years--and is still far from accomplishment. Every move which will influence it should be made; the two suggested are evident and practical...