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dergraduates who have actually do"ne
a bit of original investigation, and
to associate membership those who
have given promise of research abil
ity. Originality of mind and method,
independence and initiative as exhib
ited by 'the work of the student, rather
than semester grades have long been
the prominent criteria upon which the
eligibility of candidates for election
to Sigma Xi has been Judged. In few
cases are class grades considered at
all, and such records seldom play an
important part in determining the
candidate's rating.
Research ability as shown by work
already done, or the promise of such
ability as indicated by the work of
the student in the suence courses, is
the primary factor upon which elec
tions to membership in the Nebraska
chapter are determined. There are
now three grades of membership in
the society: Active, associate and
alumni. The following and no others
are eligible to election to active mem
bership: Any professor or instructor,
or other member of the staff df the
university, who has shown noteworthy
achievement as an original investi
gator in some branch of pure or ap
plied science and has published the
results of scientific research conducted
by them. Master's and doctor's theses
of more than five years standing are
not accepted as fulfilling this require
ment. Any registered student, who,
as judged by his actual work of in
vestigation, has exhibited an aptitude
for scientific research may also be
elected to active membership. The fol
lowing are eligible for election to as
sociate membership: Any graduate
student who has shown marked ex
cellence in two or more departments
of pure or applied science, and any
undergraduate student who has co,'.i
pleted the first three years of under
graduate work and who has shown
marked excellence in two or more de
partments of pure or applied science.
The following and no others are eli
gible to election to alumni member
ship: Any graduate of the university
of not less than five years' standing,
on conditions prescribed for election
of professors to active membership;
any professor, instructor or investi
gator connected with a neighboring
educational, scientific, or professional
institution not having a chapter of
Sigma Xi, who would otherwise be
eligible as prescribed for election of
instructors to active membership; as
sociate members who meet the re
quirements prescribed for student
active membership within five years
after they were elected associates.
After five years associate members
are subject to the requirements for
active membership for professors and
instructors, if they, are nominated for
active membership.
In all cases the nominations for i
grades of membership aie carefully
scrutinized by the committee on nom
inations which may reject and nom
ination. The list of nominations is
then presented to the local chapter
which is the actual electing body. The
Nebraska chapter elects from thirty
to fifty members each year. The num
ber of all grades of membership
elected this year was thirty-five.
PHI BETA KAPPA KEY
IS HONOR MOST COVETED
POLL OF STUDENTS SHOW
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humanites, the field of the scholai
rather than the scientist; although its
membership is open to both. Language
and literature, history and philosophy
these have been the fields of learning
most distinctively associated with the
society, with their aim in the dis
interested and public spirited phases
of education rather than in the pri
vate and vocational. Its center ha9
always been the liberal arts, to which
the judgment of the leaders of men
has generally assigned the influence
in giving to our country or indeed
to .any country a broad-minded cul
ture. The traditional Phi Beta Kappa
celebration of its purposes has com
monly included an address or oration
devoted to some question of letters
or public interest and also a Phi
Kappa poem. One might indeed say
that in this latter respect the society
is unique among organizations de
voted to .scholarship, for the poem rcc
ognizes its willingness to cultivate
imaginative power as well as the dis
ciplines which make for knowledge.
Entrance to Phi Beta Kappa is via
two paths. The simple anil direct
path is a primary interest in one's
studies. Any student of average
powers who brings to college a genu
ine concern for learning, who is really
interested in books and ideas and
keeps this interest in the fore during
his collegiate course, is pretty sure to
make P. B. K. The final selection for
the senior class is nowadays almost
universally made upon the basis of
course averages for the four collegi
ate years. The method is very defec
tive, as everyone recognizes. It means
that students who have awakened to
an interest in stuuies laie in meir
course are handicapped, as are those
who have had ill health or misfortune.
It means that many with marked
gifts, even high scholarship in cev-
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tain fields, will fail because of a lack
of interest or power in some other
direction. And it means that there
will always be some percentage of
P.B. K.'s who have achieved the so
ciety because they set about it early,
choosing their courses not because of
nn interest in scholarship, but because
of their ability to make grades in cer
tain lines. These are serious defects;
but no more satisfactory system of
selection has yet been found, and on
the whole it does work in the sense
that few of those students who have
followed a normal college career, and
have followed it with that zest for
learning which is the real spirit of
the society, fail to make the honor
theirs. For the rest, the second path
is still open. For one of the good
things about Phi Beta Kappa is that
from year to year it chooses from
among the alumni of the college some
of those who have shown by the na
ture of their later achievements that
its membership should be theirs. In
this it affords some comparison with
the graduate honors offered by Euro
pean universities to men who have
proved themselves in the after-years
of their college life.
The honor in which students hold
Phi Beta Kappa is one of the most
wholesome phases of our American
college life. For it i3 one of the very
few symbols which remains to remind
us that the liberal education is pro
vided by the state not for private ad
vantage but for the cultivation of a
public spirit maintained in sanity
through n genuine acquaintanceship
with the sources and traditions of our
civilization.
CALENDAR
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Phi Gamma Delta house dance.
Alpha Tau Omega, picnic at Crete.
Saturday, May 19.
Alpha Delta Pi Founders' Day ban
quet, Lincoln.
Alpha Chi Omega, dinner-dance,
Kappa Thl Mothers' day, Lllen
Smith hall.
Kappa Alihu Tbeta dance, K. .C
hall.
Omega Beta Pi dance, Ellen Smith
hall.
riii Mu house dance.
Phi Tau Epsilon house dance.
SECOND SEMESTER
EXAMINATIONS TO
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Senior Picnic
Picnic at Crete this evening, Fri
day, May 18.
L. A. Wolkanger, who received his
Masters Degree in Geography here
last spring, has received a promotion
in the Department of Geography of
Columbia University where he has
acted as graduate assistant. Mr. Wol
f anger was recently offered a position
as assistant in Geography 'at Chicago
University.
Classes meeting at '4:00 p. m., Tues
day, Thursday, Saturday, or any one
or two of these days.
Wednesday, May 30
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meeting at C:00 p. m., Monday, Wed
nesday, Friday, or any one or two of
these days.
Thursday, May 31 '
8:00 a. m. to 10:00 a. m.-r-Classes
meeting at 5:00 p. m., Tuesday, Thurs
day, Saturday, or any one or two of
these days.
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