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Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: 140 Move Off Campus; Overcrowding Blamed | 10/15/1964 | See Source »

Watson said that only 33 students were dropped for poor scholastic performance last June. On the basis of past experience, the College had expected 75 or 30 to flunk...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: 140 Move Off Campus; Overcrowding Blamed | 10/15/1964 | See Source »

...firecracker: against the government, for Cuba, to oust professors, or anything else that catches their fancy. Last week, on the eve of final exams, the 18,725 students at Caracas' Central University were on strike for a brand-new reason: the right to flunk forever and still remain in school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Subversion Si, Study No | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...variable. They range from groups 2 to 6 from semester to semester; from A to E in a single marking period. When a Skipper has his moments of success, he sees it as "good luck," a freak communion with a grader, an unexpected compliment. And when he happens to flunk out (with marks like two A's and two E's, his low marks do not faze him at all, since he thinks they are so crazy. He has a moderately unshakable estimate of his own intelligence and a measure of satisfaction with courses completely independent of grades...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: On Handling Academia: Strive, Scoff, or Skip | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...contrast, Conant said, Europeans are surprised at the selectivity of American colleges and universities, which may flunk as many as 40 per cent of entering freshmen, and at the procedures "by which a person is guided out of a university...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Conant Says Education Needs Overall Planning | 2/18/1964 | See Source »

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