Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petits mentaux often become les grands mentaux at exam time. By U.S. or any other standards, French exams are among the world's most exacting. Many students suffer "exam collapse" and (in extreme cases) "exam psychosis." Although students who flunk can try again a half-year later, they see a first failure as a personal humiliation. To an alarming extent, students use stimulating drugs to keep themselves going through their final swotting: sales of Maxiton (an amphetamine) zoom from 10,000 boxes a month to 120,000 during the May-July exam season and university authorities have issued posters...
...After all," he adds, "two or three were turned down for every one accepted, and the flunk-out rate last year was less than two percent. If they just learn to plan on a long-range basis, they'll do all right. It's at the beginning of the year, when the professor says 'read these books, and write these papers, and take these exams, and good luck'--it's then that the student may feel swamped...
...this blurb, the colleges put out a volume of factual description. How many students of what sex, geographic distribution, economic resources, post-graduation intentions, and ability does a college have? Does the college allow cars, women, drinking, fraternities? How big are classes, what are the academic demands, how many flunk...
...Eastland, loudest voice of the bias-bawling white Citizens' Council. On hearing the news. Mrs. Elizabeth Eastland gulped: "It comes as a surprise." Affably drawled Jim Eastland: "No comment." The Senator's consolation, if he decides to let his children stay at Sidwell: unless his kiddies flunk several grades, or some of the late-coming Negro students are skipped upward, the Eastland children will not have colored classmates...
Yale thinks that its students have never read better. On the other hand, Associate Professor John Jordan of the University of California's English department has noted that half of U. of C.'s applicants regularly flunk the English entrance examination. "If 50% of the top 20% of the high-school graduates cannot pass the test," says he, "it seems to suggest that, for one reason or another, the students are not very well prepared by the public schools...