Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...eight Juniors have been chosen members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Scholarly achievement and scholarly promise have been the basis of election, and a conscientious attempt has been made to do justice to every eligible name. In determinating the elections scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate ground of decision the difficulty of the courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also received due consideration. The names are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank or order of election...
...either wholly independent or wholly subservient to the mother country. Our system has worked admirably, but since the interests of the country have become so complicated, faults have cropped out. A rift has grown up between the spheres of action of the national and state governments, and this neutral ground is now a field of refuge for all the men of great fortune who wish to work without supervision...
...Ryan '11 maintained that the essential condition of a two-party system is lacking in France. There are not two parties because the French seek the ideal in politics rather than the practical. Reasonable interpretation, however, gives ground for the opinion that parliamentary government in Frances is approaching the goal of efficiency...
...soon as that body has convinced the Faculty of its earnestness and of its worth. Without such a provision, any increase of the Council's authority through the liberality of the Faculty would have been without ratification by the undergraduates, and might have lacked their hearty support, on the ground that such augmented power was an encroachment upon individual rights...
...attack on the scheme for a new Student Council has been criticized as purely destructive. It is certainly destructive as regards the present scheme. If this plan fails of ratification, however, then the ground will be cleared and constructive action may begin. It is our idea that the proper way to obtain an effective Council is as follows: Have a small body of men elected, either at large or by classes, to draw up a constitution. In view of the present discussion, there would be much material at hand to work on. This new constitution should embody real powers...