Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unfortunate situation reveals two fundamental weaknesses in our American educational set up, which tend to destroy the effectiveness of our universities and lower their scholastic standings. First is that there are not enough young men in the country who can afford to pay for a college education, although there...
Forty-two undergraduates with Group rating in the rank list during the past academic year have been awarded Detur Prize books, the oldest scholastic prize on the University, the Dean's office announced today.
At the present time too many students are admitted to college merely on their ability to obtain high grades at school, and to pass the comparatively simple requirements of the college boards. Little attention is paid to a student's ability to adjust himself to a new scholastic standard, to...
If our Universities were to raise their entrance standards there would be less need to tighten up on the scholastic requirements to stay in college; thus the problem would be attacked at its very roots, and many men would be spared the unnecessary pain of being "flunked out." It is...
As in the case of F. William Burgess 1L, there is no apparent reason for the disappearance. An honor student, on the dean's list, Gould had been in good spirits; his college friends say that he has been of a calm, unworried disposition, has been in good health and...