Word: shirkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of Seniors it will be extended, no doubt, to the entire student body. And why shouldn't universities make the attempt to place a premium upon brains in this way? Students who maintain high rank give an institution very little trouble. It is the dunce and the shirker who make it necessary for colleges to maintain an array of deans and other disciplinary officials. There is something to be said, therefore, for the doctrine that the better a student's rank in his studies the less he ought to be charged for his instruction. At any rate the Yale...