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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates who have just been taken into Phi Beta Kappa deserve commendation. They are to be congratulated in having achieved the highest scholastic distinction in the University. Creditable as their work has undoubtedly been, nevertheless, it does not of necessity denote high scholarly distinction. It is, unfortunately, too easy to acquire good standing by learning things by rote, and there are students who gain the highest averages by dint of incessant, unthinking memorizing...
...years, it was customary to choose 22 Seniors at the first election, but this season, owing to the military conditions at College, only fifteen Seniors were taken on in February. As a total of 22 Seniors, besides the eight men chosen in their Junior year, must be elected, there still remains a minimum of four members of the Class of 1919 to be honored. In normal years, it was customary to take on a total of 40 Seniors, but owing to the fact that the present graduating class is only a little more than half the usual size...
...Athletic Committee has voted not to give the track team a training table on the grounds that it is a team of individuals, and does not work as a unit. No clearer step could be taken to convince followers of track athletics that the Committee are either unfamiliar with the ground on which they travel; or are unwilling to support track with the same spirit with which they support baseball and crew...
Entries for the annual spring track handicap meet close at six o'clock this evening. Any member of the University who has taken a strength test is eligible to compete in the carnival, which will begin promptly at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Entry books are posted at the Locker Building, Leavitt & Peirce's, and the Freshman dormitories...
...date during May. It will be a handicap contest with 13 events: 100 and 220-yard dashes, 440, half-mile, mile and two-mile runs, 120-yard high, and 220-yard low hurdles, high and broad jumps, shot-put, pole-vault, and hammer-throw. All track candidates who have taken their strength tests are eligible. Blue-books will be posted in the H. A. A., Locker Building, and Leavitt & Peirca's, where entries may be made until 6 o'clock tomorrow night...