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...Victory or die!" Oh! yes, but to play only to win is the certain sign of poor sportmanship; and to study solely for high grades and Phi Beta Kappa is the displeasing brand of a "grind". Somewhere must He Aristotle's golden mean! It has been found in the realm of college athletics by a gradual building up of a commendable code of ethics and traditions, whose force becomes apparent if any competing team breaks its iron laws. But in the realm of scholarship it is otherwise...
...viewpoint which many college men hold, as expressed by W. H. Cowley, a former member of Dartmouth's student committee on the curriculum: 'Our professors stand on platforms like little gods and speak in pale blue voices, and when blue book time comes, we regurgitate. . . . Phi Beta Kappa scholarship is all pure memory work, parrot education...
...learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy of U. S. scholarship, is as useless as its emblem, a watch...
Mason Hammond was in the Junior eight elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the class of 1925. He expects to specialize in the classics at Oxford...
...tutoring bureau which was a feature of the activities of the Phi Beta Kappa Society last year will resume its activities this week and continue them for the present year it was announced last night by W. J. Milde '35, who is in charge, of that division of the society's activities. Milde will be in the Crimson Building every Thursday from 1 to 3 o'clock. After the holidays the bureau will be open three days a week in an effort to help the students before mid-years...