Word: probationer
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With Patriot's Day just around the corner, the student not on the Dean's List is compelled to regard its advent with some apathy. He whom the Fates frowned on at the midyears has long since received a neatly printed notice from the Dean's Office reminding him that...
For those who are just scraping through, the institutions of probation and attendance at classes have at least some justification for existence, but forbidding cuts at vacation time when they are freely allowed even to the non-honor student at other times comes under the head of nuisance legislation. No...
The minority (there always is one) which opposed, in the Academic Council, the move to change Stanford's educational setup by eliminating probation and disqualification among upper classmen and graduates contended that the move will tend to allow a "country club atmosphere" to permeate these dear old grounds.
On the other hand, there are material benefits derived from probation which ought to be preserved, in one form or another. Border-line cases must be made aware of the imminence of their expulsion. Perhaps the most sensible change would be to keep a nominal probation which would cause the...
There is one serious obstacle which the abolition of the penalties attached to probation would encounter, and which it would be fatal to ignore. Athletes are often under a certain moral pressure from coaches and from their team-mates to take part in those sports in which they are proficient...