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...addition, Wriston's insistence upon strict academic standards means that a correspondingly higher percentage of students flunk out every year. Of the present senior class at Brown only 365 remain from an original freshman group of over 600. This sharp drop is a public warning that Brown expects its students to keep their averages up. It also suggests that Wriston may be overdoing his quest for the top. He may be asking for more than his students are intellectually capable of producing...
Most students have plenty of time for athletics, because the scholastic standards are made more flexible because of the state-support. The governor of Ohio spends a great deal of money to send these young people to college, and he does not intend to see them flunk out. A student goes on warning only if he gets a D average. If his marks go up to D plus, he comes off warning. If they go below, he may conceivably be asked to leave the school...
...presidents believe all CP members automatically flunk their tests because of the nature of the group to which they belong. While this is probably true in the great majority of cases, it is not necessarily so in all. Dropping the blanket over all CP professors without passing individual judgement is playing too carelessly with the rights of tenure...
...large company recently offered to hire Yale's entire crop of graduate electrical engineers-sight unseen. Another promised the University of Santa Clara to employ even those engineering students who flunk their finals. Men about to be drafted are being signed to promissory contracts for the future. "It's like a fraternity rush," said the University of California's Associate Dean Everett Howe last week. "It's bad for the boys; it hurts their work and inflates their egos...
...first year of the new deal for women, the Portias compiled an average record. None made an A but thereafter there was a reasonable cross-section, including a flunk...