Word: slocum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Answering the attack on the Phi Beta Kappa man written by Thomas W. Slocum '90, and published in the May number of the Advocate, G. W. Martin '10, in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, seeks to justify the alleged immodesty shown...
...just as soon as our Phi Beta Kappa candidates were taking hope that after all there might be something more attendant upon membership in that exclusive society than the mere privilege of dangling another gold charm on the watch chain, along comes Mr. T. W. Slocum. New York financier...
...Slocum admires the study required to earn membership in the society, but maintains that it does not promise leadership in business. This is no doubt very fine. An exceptional mind is not necessary to high executive positions. The point of the whole controversy seems to be that unusual mental power is one though only one of several factors of primary importance in business success. Personality and the ability to win over the confidence of others are equally essential but nevertheless the Phi Beta Kappa man has proven that he has one at least of these necessary qualifications. The Daily Princetonian
Last week, however, a dissenting voice, loud, strong, was raised. It belonged to burly Thomas Williams Slocum, 61, textile potentate, sportsman, clubman, orator, onetime (1924-27) president of the Harvard Club of Manhattan. He was a big man in his class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K. man. His dissent, entitled "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," appearing in the Harvard Advocate, did not bother with statistics. He did not try to prove ; he knew. ' He simply wielded his own bludgeon: "The Phi Beta Kappa men have apparently disappeared, and those who gave little...
...Prof. Chafee of the Law School on freedom of thought and action in their many manifestations. To the undergraduate perhaps the most interesting chapter is that on "The Inquiring Mind" itself. In it is to be found a very able refutation to the beliefs of such men as Mr. Slocum, who in the current Advocate, for instance, urges less time on studies and more on sports and extra curriculum activities. Prof. Chafee believes that the four years of college life can be put to better use, and in general, it must be admitted that he makes a stronger case than...