Notes

Phi Beta Kappa. Charles Allen Eastman, Dartmouth senior, refused last week an election to Phi Beta Kappa. His reason: "The present system of marks does not show the true ability of a student." He was the first student in Dartmouth history to decline the PBK key, one of the few in the U. S. to do so.

Unlimited Cuts. Seniors in good standing at Princeton are privileged to be absent from as many lectures as they desire, without penalty, for the remainder of the academic year. It is an experiment which Dean Christian Gauss hopes will not be abused.

Best Young Scientist. A scheme of seeking to find the best fitted young man, between the ages of 17 and 25, to study four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was announced last week. Those who think they are "the best" will be required to submit a brief essay on "Why I Would Like a Technical Education;" will be queried on engineering or scientific projects they have conceived or executed. A committee composed of President Samuel W. Stratton of M.I.T., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Vice President Elisha Lee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Manager Frank W. Lovejoy of the Eastman Kodak Co., Vice President Frank B. Jewett of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and others will then select the most promising youth, who will enter M.I.T. next autumn on a four-year scholarship given by the Youth's Companion.

In Jail. Ten freshmen of Butler University of Indianapolis, Ind., fled to a jail rather than submit to further rough initiations at the hands of members of the Tau Kappa Tau fraternity. They played cards, sang songs, ate food supplied by the father of one of them. Big TKT men promised "action" when the freshmen left jail.