PHI BETA KAPPA CELEBRATION

The annual celebration of the Alpha of New Hampshire, Phi Beta Kappa, occurred on Thursday evening, February 18. Nine members of the senior class, who had attained a standing of 85 or above in 63 semester hours by the close of the first semester, were admitted to membership in the society. These men were B. V..Borella, A. Bradley, G. F. Ingalls, C. B. Jordan, Jr., L. R. Mac Hale, T. C. Pray, A. L. Priddy, B. Ruml, and P. E. Sargeant. Six other seniors had been received into the chapter at the beginning of the year, and a third group will be initiated at Commencement.

The initiation of the new members, conducted by Professor Charles D. Adams, president of the chapter, took place in the Little Theater in Robinson Hall. After the ceremony of admission, the members of the society and their invited guests, who included the faculty and the students of the three honor groups of the College, listened to the annual address, delivered by the Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers, D.D., Litt.D., of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This address, "Protective Coloring in the Educational World," dealt with the problem of honest avowal of purpose in the various fields of education, and was marked by Dr. Crothers's usual genial humor and sound reasoning.

After the address, the members of the society held their annual dinner at the Hanover Inn. About seventy members of the Dartmouth and other chapters were present. Professor Harlow S. Person of the Tuck School acted as toastmaster. The old custom of an anniversary poem, revived at the celebration last year, was continued at this dinner, Professor Francis Lane Childs serving as poet of the society for this meeting. The reading of the poem was followed by a series of informal toasts touching upon the general theme of the of the evening, that of the search for ultimate truth. Responses were made by Professor William Patten, Chester Bradley Jordan, Jr., '15, Dr. Crothers, and Professor Herbert D. Foster. The choir, led by Professor Foster, enlivened the dinner by the singing of songs of the "Six Sister Colleges"—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, and Amherst.