Word: scholasticism
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Brightening the senior's weary scholastic life, a grade in Tutorial 99 is practically an automatic "A". Although the abundance of honor grades pleases in the seniors, the present system deflates the individual mark and creates an unhealthily stilted tutor-tutee relationship.
The Palfrey Exhibition Award was given to Alexander Gelley '55 of Cleveland and Adams House. The prize was established for the scholarship student who has the highest scholastic ranking in the senior class.
The ten students participating in the program were selected from a number of applicants by the Committee on Advanced Standing. The men did not have to be in Groups I or II, but had to have "good scholastic records and the recommendation of the departments," Hanson said.
Much of the team's hopes faded when Fletcher Davis suffered a brain concussion in a Christmas skiing accident, for which he is still hospitalized. One of Minnesota's top scholastic swimmers, Davis recorded a 2:11 200-yard free-style practice swim here before Christmas.
Figuring out which families to encourage, confessed Physicist Darwin, is a discouraging problem. "The breed of race horses has been improved indeed to a remarkable degree . . . We would like to do the same for humanity, but it is a very difficult business deciding what human beings have won the race...