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...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...
There is an imaginary, though not unlikely situation to be drawn: a student is about to take his last final exam in New Lecture Hall basement. If he fails the exam, he will flunk out. Cramming to the last minute, he finds, as he approaches the stairway, that he has but 12 seconds left to get into the examination on time...
Will he walk around the grass plot as a decent citizen should, upholding his moral fortitude, but flunking, or will he take the criminal short cut, reaching the exam just in time? A question indeed, but should he flunk, Harvard architecture will have claimed another victim
...years Dean Johnston-a neurologist, among whose contributions to learning is a study of the nervous system of vertebrates-has been trying to find out why college students flunk. Six years ago he started to follow the academic fortunes of every freshman who entered Minnesota. Last week in a learned treatise Scholarship and Democracy* he reported that more than one half (52%) of 1,438 who matriculated in 1931 never became successful students. Of the children of the poor, 15% won honor standing, 58% did satisfactory work; of the well-to-do, only 6.5% achieved honors, 42% passed. But only...