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...institution where scholarship has inadequate appreciation by undergraduates and almost no social incentive to encourage it, a society which has high scholarship for its ideal must recognize the importance of including scholars of character and ability along with the highest stand men. Some endeavor must be made to remove the opprobrium from scholarship which is all too prevalent and a continuation of such a policy by the Phi Beta Kappa will be of great assistance...
During the past three months work at Phillips Brooks House has continued along the lines usually followed in the fall and early winter. Since the early fall conference held two days before College opened at which some 40 men were present, the activities have been carried on by the Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society, the St. Paul's Catholic Club, and the Harvard Mission...
...just what motives a man should make his selection in these elections is still a disputed point. Mere friendship for the candidate should not be enough in itself. The CRIMSON believes that the committees should be a happy mixture of capable and hard-working men with men whose achievements along other lines are worthy of recognition. It is impossible to ignore the athlete but it is impractical to crowd out a man who will be serviceable to the class merely because he has not contributed to victories on the gridiron or on the river. A fusion of the two elements...
...their work. It should emphasize the fact that more men are doing scholarship work each year, including men who are interested in other things as well, and that men are realizing more and more the intimate connection between vigorous intellectual effort in College and the attainment of distinction along this and other lines in later years...
...Baldwin began his lecture by describing the conditions in the Arctic Sea. There exist vast ice-packs that move slowly along the course of least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked...