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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roxbury, has been elected First Marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the University, an office which each year goes to the student ranking highest in his studies. Marget completed the College course in three years, graduated with the class of 1919, and is now attending the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Second Marshal of the Society, Robert Ephraim Eckstein '20, of Norwood, N. J., was chosen to hold office during the coming year. For the past year he has served in the capacity of Secretary of the society. Eckstein is a graduate of Englewood High School...
Make-up examinations for those students who were absent from the final examination of the second session of the Summer School will be held today in Harvard 5 at 2 o'clock. All examinations will be three hours in length...
...college men. The entrance requirements are not too hard, but they are too numerous. In preparing for either the new or old plan tests, the average boy needs to put in a working day of six to eight hours of prescribed work during his last four years at school. He has not time to develop properly any independent intellectual interests worth cultivating; he has little leisure for self-improvement and self-development, and even this leisure he is apt to find has been planned...
These views are set forth in a recent issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin by the Principal of a Secondary School which sends nearly all of its boys to Harvard. As a remedy, this principal proposes reducing the quantity of the college entrance requirements by one-fourth, the quality remaining the same and requiring the successful candidates to show by personal conference that they have made good use of their leisure time...