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Word: flunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both private and public institutions, some educators have begun to worry about whether the emphasis on brains and tests might go too far. Many state-supported schools still feel they have a moral obligation to give every taxpayer's child his chance, even though he may flunk out. "We believe," says President Fred Hovde of Purdue University, "in the doctrine of opportunity. If students fail, they at least know they've had their chance." To Headmaster Seymour St. John of Choate, mere "quickness of mind" may become far too important. "Is there not a hazard," he asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COME THE WAR BABIES!: Colleges Are Ill Prepared for Their Invasion | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...official is even planning to move to France so that her two sons can learn French and German and thus have an advantage when the time for college comes. One Princeton alumnus hounded his alma mater to take in his boy, even though he knew the boy would probably flunk. The father's argument: unless his son got in, he wouldn't be eligible for the Princeton Club of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COME THE WAR BABIES!: Colleges Are Ill Prepared for Their Invasion | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Cause you'll flunk out (inevitably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Low Mercury Hurts Cattle and Scholars; Rx: Miami Pastures | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

...rocking bed to breathe; a deaf girl who finds that she can easily read her professors' lips on TV; a blind woman of 55 who tape-records each lecture, plays it back to herself until she has mastered it. Says she: "I don't care if I flunk. These courses are giving me something I was starved for-intellectual intercourse. I have contact with these people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TV College | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

What's a Ghetto? In the past few years, as more and more Orientals flounder, flunk and repeat, some European parents have begun demanding separate schools for them. "The Oriental child." says

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration in Israel | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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