Honored by Phi Beta Kappa

The following men were elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the meeting Tuesday evening: Ralph Herbert Anderson '14, of Lynn; James Bryant Conant '14, of Roxbury; Richard Stockton Merriam '14, of Salem; Gilbert Vivian Seldes '14, of Philadelphia, Pa.

This election is held annually after the mid-year period for the purpose of "meeting exceptional cases where persons have shown distinguished excellence in scholarship, but have failed, for reasons not affecting their good character, to attain very high grades." This allows the society to take account of cases which have not been voted on in the Fall because- of technical considerations, particularly where men, graduating in three years, have taken the oral examination for distinction at graduation, and have not taken the written examination, and whose marks have consequently not yet been recorded at the Office.