Word: scholasticism
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Very apparent, as well, is the effect that the fraternities have upon scholastic averages. On a four-point grade scale, the over-all average of fraternity pledges is 2.1, as compared to a campus-wide average of 2.5, a rather significant difference. Even more suggestive is the fact that out...
"Ultimate performance in society"-not just brains and grades-should be the admissions criterion of top colleges, says Headmaster Leslie R. Severinghaus of the Haverford School near Philadelphia. In the Journal of the Association of College Admissions Counselors, he warns against the "highly intelligent, aggressive, personally ambitious, and socially indifferent...
Southmayd succeeds Dick Diehl, a tackle, as football captain. His home town is Newton, Mass., where he made Boston area All-Scholastic at Newton High. A fine student, Southmayd plans a career in medicine.
Yet the council will convene at a time when the church is in the midst of transition, attempting to plot a true and vigorous course through intellectual and social turbulence. Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger of Paderborn, one of Germany's most articulate advocates of change in the church, argues that...
He had been ruled ineligible during his freshman year by the Ivy League eligibility committee, because he had once accepted money for playing Junior League A hockey in Canada. But the Ivy League committee reversed its ruling at the start of last year, after studying Kinasewich's scholastic record and...