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...clock--Phi Beta Kappa exercises in Sanders Theatre. Orator, Governor W. L. Cross of Connecticut; poet, Archibald MacLeish...
...program was to be scholarly indeed. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry of Harvard Theological School, first Rhodesman sent abroad from Michigan, would deliver the Swarthmore baccalaureate. English Professor Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, first Rhodesman from West Virginia and now Yale's expert on Marlowe, would give the Phi Beta Kappa address. The Swarthmore commencement address would be delivered by Sir Francis James Wylie. who lately retired as resident host and welcomer to Rhodes Scholars at Oxford (TIME, March 7, 1932) and this year, with his white-haired, U. S.-born wife, has been visiting Rhodesmen old and new about...
...singles final. It was a match they had played many times before, on the same courts. Hines, steadier and stronger overhead, lost the first set. then used the advantage of Wright's surprise to win the next two easily. After the rest Wright, a Phi Beta Kappa man who prefers brawn to brain on a tennis court, ran up a 3-1 lead. Hines, steady, methodical, clever, whittled down the lead, took the set, match & title...
...degree is the prerogative of every home born child of whatever position or attainments. University catalogues have been lavish in their descriptions of unmoneyed young men who have earned many thousands of dollars in the course of their college careers, have become class officers and have merited Phi Beta Kappa. Almost every college, of course, can boast of a few such men in its history, and can embalm them in catalogues for the enchantment of the yokelry. During prosperous years men attracted by their example have been able to survive, to balance precarious budgets and to secure their degrees...
...chief object of criticism, however, is the undergraduate himself. The leading editorial heaps scorn upon the "indifferent," the "deb-chasers," and the "grade-grubbers," while special articles expose the short-comings of the "final" club men and the Phi Beta Kappa. The case of the "final" club men seems even more hopeless. The critic of final club mentality is uncertain whether their low scholastic standing, for which statistical proof is offered, is the consequence of congenital mental inferiority or absorption in social activities or general "indifference." In other articles a tribute is paid to the commercial tutors for their services...