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Though unwilling to view the figures as indicating a trend, von Stade termed the present number of drop-outs "fantastically small" compared with most colleges...
...number of withdrawals is 'the smallest I remember during my administration" remarked Dean von Stade...
Only 35.3 per cent of last year's Freshmen made Dean's List in June, a "serious" drop of over seven per cent from the class of '60, according to the annual report on the Freshman year which was released yesterday. Dean von Stade called the drop "disappointing and, to a great extent, baffling." Not since 1948 has a Freshman class has a smaller percentage in Group III or above...
Also commenting was Von Stade, who said, "We have very little knowledge about what motivates a student to do well." Citing the Asian Flu epidemic last fall as one "minor" reason for the drop, he commented that "perhaps the remarkable thing is not last year's drop, but the consistent rise for five years before that...
Richard M. Koch '61, of Kirkland House and Haven, Kan., has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship, Dean Von Stade announced recently. The prize is given annually to the sophomore judged the most promising scholar of his class. A dinner for the recipient, attended by former Wendell Scholars, is held in Boston each year by the Wendell family...