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...conceivable that more than five seniors not already members of Phi Beta Kappa will receive degrees with special distinction. It seems a pity that an arbitrary limit should admit some and exclude others whose records show them to be equally deserving. A motion now pending would eliminate that fault. These are small matters, but everything that strengthens the University's confidence in the justice of the chapter's election system is a gain for the value...
...from the honor, are worth working for, and are not an impossibility for many men who now maintain a C average without difficulty. The list is a deserved reward for the student who has ambition enough to aim above the mere passing mark. But that very fact suggests one fault in the system. At present the University has set C as a "good-enough" mark; and any man, it would seem, who does better than "good-enough" should have some special consideration. The Dean's List is the natural reward: yet it does not reward all such men, but only...
Perhaps the most surprising note in these suggestions is the recurrence of one particular complaint the Tutoring Schools. Among a host of miscellaneous ideas, the repeated condemnation of those institutions stands out as one those institutions stands out as one fault on which most of the Senior were agreed. And the objections were not raised merely by onlookers who were jealous at seeing others get better marks with less effort, nor by men who regard these schools as inconsistent with the best college ethics; they seemed in many cases to come from men who had tried and had been disillusioned...
...getting a "square deal." In past years the chief complaint has come down from those who were allowed to believe that they would get two or more tickets, and found at the last minute that they were left with only one. The new plan does not eliminate that fault. Those who apply for two are as likely to be disappointed as before; and though there will be no unfairness, there is bound to be dissatisfaction when they are cut down...
...Morley's criticism takes a somewhat original slant. He believes that the fault lies in the super-seriousness with which undergraduate pursuits are carried on; he objects to the spirit of professional perfection which guides most student enterprises, and makes a plea for the amateur...