Word: flunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that we don't take much stock in equality between the sexes. The girls who will be up here this weekend are, most of them, products of 'higher' education among women, and they are a hard drinking, hard swearing lot, and not one in a hundred who wouldn't flunk out of Dartmouth College. --The Daily Dartmouth
Most colleges stop worrying about a student when he flunks out. But at that point University of Minnesota's General College begins. Flunks worry General College because they are so numerous: half of all U. S. undergraduates flunk out of college. General College believes that, if this large group cannot become competent doctors, lawyers or engineers, at least they must be made competent citizens. After seven years the college is still seeking a formula for turning out good citizens,* but last week it reported progress: it had determined by a prodigious piece of research what a college graduate...
Headmaster Robert B. Masterson of the Roxbury school, in ousting the Student Union, violates the spirit of the Constitutional Bill of Rights. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, Mr. Masterson has permitted intimidation of students desirous of joining the organization. Certain pupils have received veiled threats that they will "flunk" if they become members of the A. S. U. The Boston School Committee, which has upheld the Headmaster's action, once more reveals itself an intolerant and bigoted foe of intellectual freedom. As at the time of the passing of the teachers' oath bill, it has again raised the dreaded cry "Moscow...
...great many-about one quarter-of the young hopefuls who go to college flunk out hopelessly. That is one reason why educators would like to be clairvoyant. Last week two experts in the Federal Office of Education turned out an elaborate statistical system* for predicting whether a student will do well in college (and, therefore, whether he ought...
Sophomore year is a crucial test for a major-league baseballer. It proves whether or not he has been just another child prodigy, whether he will get his degree or flunk out. When Joe Di Maggio of the New York Yankees finished his sophomore year last October with 46 homeruns, 167 runs driven in, .346 batting average and a leading role in the World Series, he knew he was not going to flunk...