Word: shirkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picking from faculty suggestions of shirker sophomores and juniors, Amherst Dean C. Scott Porter classified 51 students as potential underachievers. After a careful screening of the students' records, and conferences with them and their parents, five juniors and seven sophomores were told to take a year's leave. Of the twelve who failed to fulfill their potential, one had a B average, the others had C or below. All may return next fall, with what Amherst hopes will be "added maturity and perspective...
...Tenth Grader Joyce, 16, has an IQ of 130. But she failed three subjects last year, and her teachers loaded her report cards with such comments as "No effort, boy friends, more interested in personal appearance than school work." Counseling and conferences did not help; Joyce was an incorrigible shirker. Her school's answer to her case: it simply threw...
Coach Harry Coldstone also pressed in here: "Listen Bill, you are a miserable shirker. T'hell with you if you leave the team...
Conscientious Shirker...
Many of the department's courses can be avoided by the conscientious shirker and there are a number of the white-shoe clientele in the department. Other men will plod through a schedule which includes, for instance: (besides Gov. 1)., Gov. 112 and 113, 124, 135, 135 and 106 (seniors only). Their impression of Government as a field of concentration will be quite different from that of their brethren as will their education...