Education: P.B.K.T.B.

It has never been said of members of Phi Beta Kappa that they toil not. But sometimes they have been accused of not spinning; of not contributing anything save an air of distinction, or pedantry, to their college community.

From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a "key," would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocketbooks. Nothing could be more practical, nothing more just than the Harvard Phi Beta...

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