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...more ordeal before leaving for home: final examinations. Said he resignedly: "They're just a formality. I've been ordered not to base my grades on the exams. I couldn't anyhow. They're all going to compare answers, and I can't flunk anyone...
...Multnomah County, taken a $500 bribe from a gambler. But when he went to take the test, Schrunk objected to six questions (e.g., "While sheriff, did you receive any payoffs from any gamblers?"), stalked out. Later he told the committee: "Apparently they were aimed at trying to make me flunk the test...
...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...
...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...
...Cause you'll flunk out (inevitably...