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Most damning, however, is the charge that the "sporting attitude" prevails in regard to college courses. Most students are interested in "passing" examinations, or, if their standard is higher, in winning A's for their value in securing scholarships or elections to Phi Beta Kappa. The degree and other honors overshadow the more important interest in the problems of life. This is a serious charge, and one that is ninety per cent. true. In choosing courses today the undergraduate should remember that he is disposing of opportunities for broadening and deepening his intellect which will not offer themselves in later...
...Graduates' Magazine makes its quarterly arrival with an assortment of strong articles in addition to a compendious record of recent interests and activities in and concerning the University. The Phi Beta Kappa address by Mr. Rhodes, which commanded such close and pleased attention in Sanders Theatre last June, is preserved in its pages. Mr. Rhodes finds in the steadfastness, humility, and humanity of Lincoln during the dark days of our Civil War an example which may be of value to present European statesmen. The picture which he gives of Lincoln is intimate, kindly yet critical, and suffused with a genial...
More directly related to the war is Mr. Noyes's Phi Beta Kappa poem. He closes a poem symphonic in rythm and melody with a timely call to this nation to continue in the pacific course which has made it great...
...Lincoln and Some Phases of the Civil War" was the subject of the oration of James Ford Rhodes at the literary exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday morning. Mr. Rhodes prefaced his specific comments by saying that Lincoln was not as faultless as he seems to some of us, but that one need not hesitate to point out his short-comings, knowing that his virtues will swing the balance far in his favor...
...University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, before its annual literary exercises yesterday, elected four honorary members, as well as officers for next year. The men honored by the society were Alfred Noyes, of Exeter College, Oxford, England, who delivered his poem "A Plea for Peace" in Sanders Theatre yesterday; Sidney Edward Mezes '92, president of the University of Texas from 1908 to 1914 and recently made president of the College of the City of New York; Chester Noyes Greenough '98, professor of English at Harvard; and Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor-in-chief of the New York Evening...