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...customs are following in the path of Bloody Monday Night, which leads us to believe that Harvard is not alone so priggishly indifferent to youthful effervescence after all. "The Function of P. B. K." (if the printer has no Greek letters, why can't it be written Phi Beta Kappa?) sounds learned; but we advise Mr. Potter, when writing for our lay minds, to write simply. He is absolutely right in what he says, but he should strive to put the spirit which carries conviction into his words. Of Battery A. Mr. Chandler '14 has given us an enlightening account...
Every year some newspaper man goes through the pawn shops of New York or Boston, and on the strength of discovering a Phi Beta Kappa key or two in pawn, writes an article to show that leaders in the scholastic world are generally failures in life. Probably no fallacy has more credence and less truth than this. Many undergraduates accept it as a fact because it consoles them in the belief that their mediocrity in college will, in some miraculous way, be converted into excellence in their professions...
...glance through "Who's Who in America" will show that among the many college men listed there for having done something worth while, extremely few have had plain pass records in college. Most of them have taken their degrees with distinction; many of them are members of Phi Beta Kappa. It is the rare exception when a failure or near-failure in college becomes a success in after life. Some men realize this, but, unfortunately, delude themselves into thinking that they will be the exceptions, when the chances are several hundred to one that their records after colleges will...
There has been some discussion during the past week over the present requirements for Phi Beta Kappa. Professor C. W. Mendell upholds the requirements as they now stand and has pointed out the numerous advantages in two-year membership...
...BETA KAPPA...