Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Freshman quintet will be one of the strongest in this series, centaining as it does many men who were unavailable for Coach Chase's first freshman team because of probation.
"The success or failure of the Freshman crew-depends upon the men on probation," Coach Shaw said recently. "If these men are not eligible after the April hour examinations, we will not have a chance of defeating Yale in June."
This situation is so critical that Coach Shaw has dispensed with the probation crew of past years and has lined up the Freshmen on the red, white, and blue crews irrespective of their eligibility. Inasmuch as every encouragement is being given these men to study and to get off probation...
The toll taken by probation this year is extremely heavy, 25 percent of the candidates having dropped below the required scholastic standard. The coaches have urged these men to put every effort into passing the April hour examinations, so that they may participate in the spring season.
The result is the present situation, in which the cat chases his own tail. Failing to get the requisite marks in the first place, the student is given an extra handicap in the shape of probation and told to produce even higher grades than before. While the paternal system exists...