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EPSILON SIGMA PI THE average Manhattan man pays little attention to his cumulative index unless he knows that it is hovering dangerously close to the 2.0 mark. Most of us are so engrossed with the struggle to pass every- thing that we regard a B as something to be greeted with cheers and rejoicing. However, there are some Manhattan men to whom these same B ' s are anathema; these are the men with the first-honor indices, and every B they get brings their index- down. It was these men that the Scholarship Committee had in mind when, in 1933, they founded Epsilon Sigma Pi to honor those members of the Senior Class whose major interest was in their studies. Even in normal times there are not very many who can manage to hit first honors on the Dean ' s List for the first six terms of college, and, with the outbreak of the war, the recent upheavals and scholastic inter- ruptions have caused the numbers of this group to shrink even more. It is bad enough to have ordinary peace-time distractions — meetings, dances, sports events — vying with studies for the inside track without having a war around to distract you. The select membership of Epsilon Sigma Pi this year is an added tribute to those men who, in spite of seemingly insurmountable difficulties, managed to make the grade. If it has been more difficult, then these men de- serve added credit for having the grit and the brains to extend themselves to win this coveted honor. 147
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PEN AND SWORD MANY years ago, when some of us were in grammar school and many others of us were ah ' eady enrolled at Manhattan, a OncidruJigle editor wrote an editorial blasting the senior honor society as a Broken Pen and Rusty Sword, a group of the most active members of the senior class, who were as a unit the most inactive on the campus. Pen and Swordmen in the Class of 1947 can certainly scoff at any such criticism today. For with the rejuvenated spirit brought about by the first full membership since 194.3, this year ' s group set about and accomplished what pro ' ed to be one of the most active years in the society ' s history. As the guard- ian of tradition, it introduced the Christmas Dance which, it is hoped, will continue to be an annual affair. An overwhelming financial 149
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