New-York tribune., 1921-05-31
Jazz and Stage
W elconled Into
Columbia I 1t
Mannheim, Who Played Femi-
nine Roles IN Theatricals,
Among Leaders Who Quail
ify for Phi Beta Kappa
College Editors Chosen
Son of Edwin Markham Reads
Class Poem; Richard F.
Fox Makes Presentation

Grease paint and jazz ballets are
no longer inconsistent with the highes.
academic honors: neither does leader
ship in undergraduate life take up so
much of q Columbia students life
that he has too little time to study.
This was proved in the announcement
of elections to Phi Beta Kappa at the
class day exercises at Columbia Uni
versity yesterday afternoon, when five
men who had been class leaders, quail
fed for the great intellectual aristoc-
racy
They were Lawrence B. Condor
president of the senior class, chair
man of the student board and winner
of the Brainard and Rolker prizes /:
Nicholas Mcdowell Mcknight, man
aging editor of The Spectator, the uni
versity daily; David Zellner Andrews,
4 member of the Spectator staff
Archie Owen Dawson, captain of the
debating team, wl;ich made a trans
continental tour, ana Leonard +. Man
heim, who was in the cast of three
varsity shows, in two of which he
played feminine roles.
List Of Those Elected
The complete list of elections to PHI
Beta Kappa was as follows:
Mayer Edel Ross, 66s Gates Avenue.
Brooklyn; ARCHIE Owen Dawson, Harris
ington Avenue; Philip H Nelson, 1895
Kingman Boulevard, Des Moines. Iowa;
Oscar Bodansky, 124 East 117th Street;
New York City: Raphale Meisels Fayettes-
vile, North Carolina Albert F. Hinrichs,
De Camp Wise, 4o03 West Adams Street,
Los Angeles, Cal: Virgil Markham, o.
Waters Avenue. West New Brighton,
Twenty fourth Street; Nathan W Wilen-
sky, 240. Sackman Street Brooklyn, New
York: Leonard f. Mannheim, GO East
ander Lipsky, 21I7 DAILY Avenue Hector
Laguardia, Nlneteenth --.eet. Elmhurst.
20s0 Mapea Avenue; Leon Saul, 629 West
ll5th Street; Herbert Tietjen, AS East
I6sth Street; Louis Yaeger, lSl South
% Boerum Street Brooklyn; Ralph c.
Epstein, Cooper-Corlton Hotel, Chicngo
st. Louis: David Zeilner Andrews, $50
Riverside Drive Nicholas Mcdowell Nc
Knight, 228 West Seventy first Street
Edward T. Pierce, Hawthorne, New York
Russell +. Potter, 42S Fifth Street. Brook
lyn: Edward Albert Capi1lon, II West
10th Street; Leo Patrick Curtin, 6I7 West
Decatur Avenue. New York CITY; Jacob
BtrnDaum, 6G4 East 1G0th Street; Maurice
NV York, 'N'' -
Exercises Held on Green
The Class Day exercises were held
on the green, in the presence of d
large. gayly dressed company Of giri
friends ana relatives of the graduating
class. ShoIt speecnes were made by
President Nicholas Murray Butler and
Dean Herbert Z. Hawkes..
Virgil Markham, son of Edwin Mark
ham the poet, read the class poem
Richard F. Fox, CT White Plains, made
the presentation. The class history
was by Arthur Levitt, the prophecy by
Sidney Kaye, the ivy oration by Julius
Sheftel, and A. D. Dawson was valedic-
torian.
Professor John Erskine announced
that the Knopf Publication Prize had
gone to David P. Leather for a volume
of poems.
Class Day exercises of Teachers Col
lege were held at the same time in the
Whittier Hall Garden In the evening
the Barnard College Seniors held their
class dance.
To-day will be devoted to Phi Beta
Kappa meetings, with Robert Frost as
the poet. The class of II will cele-
brate its tenth anniversary with sports
at Travers Island ard a dinner The
School of Architecture will celebrate
its fortieth anniversary in Avery Hall