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...HAVEN, CONN., April 24.--In the annual Senior Class balloting held here today the class voted Ellery S. Husted '23 of Peekskill, N. Y., as doing most for Yale. The class also signified by the ballot that election to Phi Beta Kappa was the greatest honor that an undergraduate could attain and that Harvard was the second best college in the country...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University: " Our youngest senior, Edward Roche Hardy, Jr., 14, made Phi Beta Kappa. When he gets put of college he is going to be a missionary...
Unfortunately, a certain group of undergraduates make a fetish of "recognition". They worship the varsity letter, the "cum laude", the Phi Beta Kappa key, not for the worthy efforts these symbols represent, but for the fancied prestige they infer. Failing to see that all glory depends on whole-hearted devotion to work, they attribute the glamor of the varsity letter to some intrinsic quality rather than to the strenuous efforts of generations of athletes. Their fatuous grinding away for "recognition" has for its goal an impossible flaunting of decorations, while the "big" man is invariably the least ostentatious...
...statistics of "H" men's mid-year marks published in another column of today's issue come as an interesting coincidence after Professor Bliss Perry's statement Monday night that a major letter and Phi Beta Kappa Key are by no means incompatible. Contrary to the popular idea that athletes get through college by the "skin of their teeth" and the kindness of their instructors, the results compiled show that not only the athletes but even those black sheep the managers and their assistants stand, if anything, rather better scholastically than do the rank and file of the college...
During the remainder of the year, the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau will hold office hours in the president's office of the CRIMSON daily except Saturdays, from 5 to 6 o'clock, beginning today. The service is entirely voluntary on the part of the members of the society and is given without charge to any who wish...