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Such has been the fundamental attitude of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa for the past century. As the college has grown, the maximum number to be elected to the Society from each class has been increased--not always with corresponding rapidity--from a normal membership of sixteen from each class, until 1866, by stages of thirty, forty, and forty-five, to the present maximum of sixty-five (about one-tenth of the number of men in each graduating class). Traditionally, eight men are chosen in the fall of their third year, as the "Junior Eight"; thirty-two Seniors are elected...
...Sixteen members of the faculty of the Harvard Business School have collaborated in the writing of a book entitled "The Case Method of Instruction," just published by the McGraw-Hill Book Co. The volume consists of a series of short articles explaining the case method in general, its adaptation to the special purposes of a course in business administration, and its application to the teaching of the particular subjects in such a course. The foreword and an article entitled "Business Teaching by the Case System" are by W. B. Donham '98, dean of the School...
Otis Resignations. In 1899 Charles Augustus Otis founded the banking house of Otis & Co. Sixteen years later he made young Cyrus Stephen Eaton a partner. Last week Charles Augustus Otis resigned from the firm bearing his name as did Partner Mervin Clark Harvey. Both will go to E. A. Pierce & Co., buyer of the brokerage business of Otis & Co. Other influential Otis & Co. partners who have resigned include Joseph Oriel Eaton (no relation to Cyrus), Richard Inglis, Ferdinand Eberstadt. Cyrus Eaton remained, comparatively alone...
...with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company, commented: "They paid me $2,000 a week?$104,000?and I cannot see what they engaged me for. . . . Twice during the year they brought completed scenarios of other people's stories to me and asked me to do some dialog. Fifteen or sixteen people had tinkered with those stories. The dialog was quite adequate. All I did was touch it up here and there. . . . They were extremely nice to me, but I feel as if I have cheated them. . . . It's all so unbelievable...
...Canton celebrated the fact as New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras. Flag-decked arches were put up. Cantonese, the southern excitables of China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this Cantonese clique venerable Tang Shao-yi is just window dressing. Brains of the new Government is Eugene Chen, 53, born at Trinidad in the West Indies, "qualified London solicitor," onetime editor-publisher of the Peking Gazette, member of the Chinese Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, and Acting...