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...candidates who pass the examination always fail to enter; some of them because in June they have not definitely selected their college, others for reasons of health of means of support, while not a few are kept out for a year on the ground that they will derive more profit from college when older. This last reason seems in almost all cases a mistake. Statistics compiled by Dean Holmes some years ago showed conclusively that the younger students were better in scholarship and conduct than the older ones...
...wish to resort to any of the doubtful organizations which make it their profession to put a man through an examination on a minimum of knowledge. Eventually, perhaps, the Phi Beta Kappa Bureau can establish itself as a clearing-house for recommended tutors and students who can profit by their services. By placing its stamp of approval on properly qualified tutors and their methods, it should eventually help to eliminate much of the "boot-leg" element in professional tutoring. The Phi Beta Kappa has been regarded chiefly as an honorary organization: in becoming usefully active as well, it will justify...
...reformers and propagandists learn from this latest discovery, and profit by it. The next of the Wild West Shows that tour Europe can carry the message of International Prohibition. Peggy O'Neil's next London-and-Paris appearance should be used to spread the gospel of Monroe. And when Henry Ford again visits a war-mad Europe, his mission should include not Jane Addams and David Starr Jordan, but Maude Adams, Frances Starr, and Al Jolson. The true purpose of art has been revealed...
...generally popular as they should be, is one of the particular opportunities of such a theatre; and his whole method of procedure, with a company of trained and versatile actors, and an intelligent producing force, is in the right line. Supporting his venture himself, and without much hope of profit, he is necessarily limited in range; but his artistic results are evidence of what could be done with a semi-endowed organization functioning on a large scale...
...Dean Briggs' retirement from the presidency of Radcliffe severs a connection that has been of the greatest profit. Together with his duties at Harvard as Boylston Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and chairman of the Athletic Committee, the position has brought him in to close' contact with the students of the two colleges, and has established for him, on account of his sympathy, humor, and kindliness, the warmest possible place in their affections...