MEN OF HIGH SCHOLARSHIP ACTIVE ON THE CAMPUS
A custom of recent years with which some of the older alumni may not be familiar is the compiling each semester of the records of men of distinctive scholastic accomplishment and the publishing of these records by the President's office in attractive pamphlet form. A study of the names on the list for the first semester of the current year is interesting from several points of view.
Fourteen men had As in all subjects and were given the coveted 4.0. No freshman achieved this honor, one sophomore had a perfect average, three juniors are in the group and the remaining ten are seniors. This marked increase in the number of perfect scores toward the close of undergraduate life may indicate a greater ability on the part of the individual student to comprehend the work of the curriculum and that the College, in some cases at least, is fulfilling its function of teaching men to think or it may mean something quite different.
Many of the men on the list are leaders in extra-curriculum activities and very few approach "the greasy grind", the popular conception of a Phi Beta Kappa student. Running down through the seniors one finds Charley Comerford, a baseball letter man; Art Dewing, captain of soccer; Andrew Edson, a member of Palaeopitus who was also on the ski team; Karl Friedmann who captained the basketball quintet his junior year and was a star this year—one of the fourteen to have a perfect average—this year; Tom Frost, captain of the ski team; Lou Goas, captain of basketball; Lou Kimball, Jacko's managing editor; Frank Shea, leading organizer of The Tower, new undergraduate journal of literature and criticism; Herb Talbot, editor-in-chief of TheBema and another of the fourteen; Bill Thompson, who produced the 1928 "Bible" and is on the Jacko board; Ed Yates, Dartmouth board; H. C. Sailer, guard on the basketball team; Dren Slater, outing club secretary; Rus Fox, baseball letter man; Lee Jamison, track man and manager of cross country; and Larry Leavitt, football fullback and track man.
Among the juniors there are Carleton Blunt, fancy diver; Bob Cleary, hockey goal tend and another of the fourteen 4.0 men; W. T. Collins of the track team; Herb Darling, basketball manager; F. E. Merrill, track man; Nate Parker, captain-elect of football; and J. P. St. Clair, manager of the musical clubs. The men in the two lower classes for the most part have not had an opportunity to become identified with any activity. The roll of men whose names are on the scholarship list who are engaged in that greatest of all extra-curriculum activities—"working their way through"—would be fully as long as the list which we have given.
