EXETER WINS PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD

Phillips Exeter Academy was announced winner of the Scholarship trophy offered by the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

The offer provides that a school shall present the best seven of its graduates as a team, and that the teams shall be rated according to the weighted average based upon the highest examination grades obtained in four selected subjects in the case of each of their seven members. The subjects must represent the four major fields of the candidates' preparation, and in order to find a place on the team a candidate must take examinations of the College Entrance Examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board. He cannot claim admission to college without examination, under the honor plan.

Boston Latin Second

The weighted average of the team representing Exeter was 90.27 per cent; it was closely followed by Boston Latin School, winner for the last four years, with 89.78 per cent. There were 21 teams in competition for the Trophy.

An important aspect of the plan is that a competing school need not send any of its boys to Harvard. Of the winning group this year, three, H.H. Bissell '33, with an average of 91.3 per cent, R.C. Wells '33, with 89.8 per cent, and W.H. Stein '33, with 89.25 per cent are at Harvard; two, B.B. Priest, with 91.91 per cent, and R.H. Jordan, with 90.15 per cent, went to Yale; and the others, R.H. Harris, Jr., with 90.50 per cent, and R.C. Gordon, Jr., with 89 per cent, went to Princeton.