A PHI BETA KAPPA ELEVEN MIGHT REPRESENT COLLEGE

From the fact that seniors in selecting each year the highest campus honor choose between the Phi Beta Kappa key and the football D many have come to think of them as two extremes. That they are really not far apart is proven by the fact that this fall Coach Hawley could have thrown on the field with only a slight loss in strength a team whose scholastic average would have been 2.9 or only a little below the minimum grade required for admission to Phi Beta Kappa.

Seven of the men on this mythical team will be awarded letters for their season's work and the other four were reliable substitutes all of whom were used in one or more games. The lineup would be as follows: Captain Bjorkman re, Parker rt, Duffy rg, Montgomery c, Smith lg, Holleran It, Marshall le, Dooley qb, Reeder rhb, Kilby lhb, Leavitt fb.

Pictures of this team were published in a number of leading newspapers, and in connection with the knowledge that Dartmouth so successfully combines scholar and athlete, the following comment from the Vermont AlumniWeekly is of interest:

"A situation probably unique in the annals of football exists at Dartmouth this year. Coach Jess Hawley, according to a recently published article, by reaching only to his first-call subs, can place on the field a team of eleven men, all in their right positions, who are or will be eligible for Phi Beta Kappa. Figures show that Capt. Bjorkman, and Tully, regular ends; Parker and Holleran, regular tackles; Smith and Duffy, regular and substitute guards; Montgomery, sub center; Dooley, regular quarterback; Leavitt, regular fullback; and Reeder and Kilby, sub halfbacks make, up a full eleven, none of whose members has fallen below a B plus grade in any subject during his career at Dartmouth.

"Brilliant students who are also star athletes are not uncommon. We have had and still do have them here at Vermont; but no college we ever heard of could boast such an athlete- scholar combination as Dartmouth has this year. And it is a notable fact that all of the 40 men on the Varsity squad stand relatively high in their studies.

"Any number of reasons might be given for this unusual condition—the system, college spirit, the very nature of the college's location and the men themselves. Probably all contribute to bring about the result which redounds with high credit to the institution that nestles in the New Hampshire hills. A team of scholars! Shades of Socrates and all the other learned men since his time! Dartmouth has solved a riddle greater than that of the Sphinx."