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...first place Phi Beta Kappa should adopt an absolute basis of scholarship for election. Its elections at present are based, with rare exceptions when a man is known to have attained, his place dishonestly, upon marks. The leading eight men in a class compose the Junior eight; and the next twenty-two, the Senior twenty-two, actual college records determine chiefly the composition of the additional ten. The announcement of its basis, however, says that eight of the first twelve men in the class are elected in Junior year, and twenty-two of the next forty-four in Senior year...
...sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English boys reveal at once the habit of clear thought to which their education has trained them. We must investigate their system and adopt it to our needs...
...point yet unsettled is the date. Though the meet will take place in Carnegie Hall, New York, during the early part of May, the exact evening has not yet been decided upon. The Intercollegiate Musical Council will adopt a constitution and will be definitely organized at a conference to be held in New York on April 7. If the meet this year is a success, articles of incorporation will be drawn up, and the organization given definite standing in the business as well as the musical world. That the meet will be kindly received by the New York public seems...
...then went on to show the remedy for the existing conditions. The United States must adopt the fundamental principle of treating every race on a basis of absolute equality. Mr. Gulick would have citizenship placed on a personal basis, and not on one of race color. He suggested that the United States allow from any one country only five per cent of the number already naturalized to come in during a year. This would restrict to a small extent the immigration from southern Europe, and would reduce all immigration to a minimum. This five per cent rule would apply only...
...examinations today, another eighth of College is ticked off for the undergraduate. The Freshmen have become fairly settled; the Seniors, some what depleted by those who leave at mid-years, look down the home stretch. Life is renewed once more. Let us rejoice and make exceeding glad. Let us adopt resolutions to be applied from February to June; let us find signs of human habitation in our late deserted dwelling places; let us rejuvenate a languishing Cambridge...