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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of men elected from each class from 45 to 65. This change restores the old proportion of Phi Beta Kappa men per class that has been lost in recent years through the growth of the college, and in the future it will allow Phi Beta Kappa to take roughly a tenth from each class instead of a thirteenth or a fourteenth as has lately been the custom...
...ordinary year, since in only one year in the past five have the Magnas and Summas awarded exceeded 65, and the average number has been 57. Further study of the above figures, however, discloses that Phi Beta Kappa has failed in two ways in the last five years to take in even as many Magna and Summa men as its old quota of 45 permitted. Firstly, in only one year of the five considered, (1926) do the official records show that the full number of 45 men were elected. Secondly, though many Magna and Summa men have not been elected...
...that a Representative of any considerable standing or influence in the House reports in Washington for the Short Session as a lame duck. When this does happen, it is usually because the Representative has aspired to higher office. Such is the case of the outstanding "lame duck" who will take his seat next week, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor-leader. Representative Garrett tried, unsuccessfully, to slip into the seat of Tennessee's Senator McKellar. Representative Tom Connolly, who will slip into the seat of Senator Mayfield after this session, might be called a three-legged duck...
...cross country men will take a few days lay off before beginning the new winter track season which begins unofficially on Monday...
...prevention of irregularities and abuse to the authority of this country by the printing press," ordering that "henceforth no copie shall be printed but by, the allowance first had and obtained under the hands of Captain Daniel Gookin and Mr. Jonathan Mitchel, until this court shall take further order therein." At this time Harvard's was the only printing plant in the country, composed of the original Glover press plus one bought by the College itself. This act of the Court was repealed the following year, showing that its demands at that time were impractical and infeasible...