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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...
...Slocum's article in the Advocate read in part...
...answer to Slocum's question, "Have you ever seen a Phi Beta Kappa man with a wrist watch?". Martin, in his letter to the Bulletin, states, "Mr. Slocum's concern is not so much with the importance of maintaining or abandoning the juxtaposition of the chronometer and the bowels as with the lack of modesty in some possessors...
...Slocum is right. The Phi Beta Kappa men should take someone their own size...
...Furthermore, Mr. Slocum has contributed, in a journal of literary merit, an acute and forceful analysis of an important educational question. This Ajax must not be left in the middle of the road to defy steam-rollers. He is too nice and too generous-hearted for road material...