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...likely to be men who will make good officers. The ideal president is an organizer as well as a leader. He is a man who believes in the desirability of unity in the class, but does not believe in unnecessarily forcing class unity and class spirit doctrines on that group of men, who appear in every class, for whom these ideas have no appeal. He is one, who, by his own standard of living, will serve as an example for others, and by his personal influence will extend wholesome principles through the class...
...number of the Illustrated Magazine opens with some characteristic sentences by Dean Briggs on the President-Elect. Addressed in the first place to a group of students in English 5, these remarks on the election of Mr. Lowell form, in their mingling of grace, frankness, and humor, perhaps the happiest comment so far made on the event which is of so much interest to us all. This event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating...
...Beta Kappa were quite an arbitrary affair. The twenty men or more in the class who had received the greatest number of As were elected in order of their rank, according to the figures in the College office. No man was considered for election from outside this select group of scholars. For some years to attempt was made to broaden the qualifications for membership and the result was the society narrowed down into a group of men similar to those recently described by President Hadley of Yale as "professional scholars." Another and more dangerous result was a loss of prestige...
Under the direction of the Christian Association, with F. C. Mabee 3G, as chairman, a bible-study campaign has been carried on, which up to the present time has enrolled about 400 men in weekly and daily study. This number includes those men enrolled in both the dormitory groups and church Sunday schools, there being about 300 of the former and 100 of the latter. The groups meet weekly in the various dormitories and are led by graduates and undergraduates, who in turn are coached in the normal courses led by Dean Hodges and Professor J. H. Ropes...
...requirements for the Degree with Distinction in History and Political Science have been amended by substituting "not including more than two from courses regularly open to Freshmen" in place of the phrase "not including more than two from the lower group...