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The undergraduate's attitude towards scholarship has changed. No longer is "C" referred to as "a gentleman's mark." The day when an undergraduate may settle himself smugly into the chair of complacent mediocrity and let the world wag, is past. Men in-college have come more and more to realize that after all their real object in coming to college should be to do well in their work, a fact sometimes lost sight of.
Accordingly the elections to Phi Beta Kappa announced in today's CRIMSON will be received with eager interest and the men who have won this honor by their work will be admired, respected, and congratulated.
They have won an undergraduate honor which outweighs all others in the estimation of their fellows. A reading of the list will show that but few of them have sacrificed all outside interests to the making of high marks; the list contains the names of men prominent in athletics and all forms of undergraduate activity. It used to be the fashion to divide the student world into "grinds" and "good fellows." Nowadays a man may be both.
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