Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first place, as was pointed out in the editorial of March 21, the impression is prevalent that it elects on a flexible basis of personality and general achievement from among the high-stand men of the class; whereas, except in proven cases of dishonesty, it seldom deviates from the ordered ranking of men according to their marks or the distinction of their degrees. Naturally it suffers. No one can think highly of the judgment of a society which, appearing to elect men somewhat according to personality, elects them almost entirely on the basis of official records. The announcements...
...position should be is open to argument. We believe that its real position at present is the right one. It should elect men on a competitive standard of scholarship, official records--faulty as they are--being in the long run the best tests of scholarship. The thirty-five highest-stand men of a class, say, should be automatically elected with possibly five more after the announcement of prizes and degrees at the end of the Senior year. If the eight to thirty-five men to whom the responsibility of perpetuating Phi Beta Kappa is yearly entrusted were omniscient, such...
...Inasmuch as these devotional exercises were frequently performed in an indifferent and perfunctory manner by those who had little or no interest in them they were far from edifying, and often distasteful to the students. Being obliged to rise before daylight, to go through the winter's storms and stand shivering in a cold room, listening to what seemed to be mere routine, even in the opinion of those who conducted it, and then going to recitations before they had breakfasted, it is not surprising that a spirit of discontent was created which manifested itself in various disorders. They disfigured...
...directly concerned with the history of morning prayers it will not be repeated here. Arising from the refusal of one man to obey his master it finally grew to a great disturbance which involved almost the whole University. It illustrated well how the whole student body used to stand behind a man in trouble with the authorities, however fair his punishment might...
Eleven of the undergraduate Social Clubs have entered into an agreement with reference to elections, which is a pledge of their desire to co-operate in supporting the principles for which the Freshman Dormitories stand. One of the significant clauses of the agreement provides that "no club shall elect as a member any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of college in his Sophomore year, or before that time pledge or promise election, even by implication to such undergraduate;" other clauses forbid the taking of any individual pledge or promise to join a club before the Friday following...