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THE BATTALION
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Yet, if the undesirable does one small act that does not meet with the ap
proval of those governing the institution, or fails to meet, by a slight
margin, the requirements of that institution, he cr she is ousted. The
three hundreds of dollars have been spent—nine weeks have been wasted
iri a futile effort to gain credit for work that must go unfinished and un
done.
And yet, it is probable that the undesirable was admitted to the school
or the department at the beginning of the year. A careful check was not
made to determine whether or not that undesirable was qualified to at
tend the school In the rush of registration, members of the registration
committee did not take into consideration the effect that the following
ousting proceedings may or may not have upon the individual.
They did not consider that such an outsing may cause the brupt ter
mination of the student’s educational career in an institution of higher edu
cation. They did not consider that on ousting may mean the complete down
fall, the deterioration of the life of the individual.
Many things are yet to be done in the American educational and
college system for the betterment of the undergraduate.
All undergraduates in the College are eligible to try for a place on the
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interested in journalism for its own sake, are urged to make themselves
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FURTHER
And that seems to be that). At least one instructor appears to have
awakened to the fact that smiting while the iron is hot is a virtue even in
this Chirstian age. We are smitten, but are still very much unbowed, and
we, tod, recognize the truth in the old maxim . . .
After struggling through the maze of somewhat esoteric but never
theless scatching sarcasms which seems to constitute the greater part of
the above message—appearing in the Open Forum, after we had recovered
from our amazement which overpowered us on seeing an instructor come
down from his books—we gathered that the irate Mr. Faires disapproved
of our editorial of last week, and that, therefore perhaps, he thinks it to
have been a bit off key. We differ from Mr. Faires. No offense. C’est la
guerre.
In the editorial in question it was stated that the grading system now
in vogue at this institution is not especially favorable to the highest stan
dards of scholarship, that the use of the Test as a scholastic measuring
stick was more or less absurd, and that instructors as we know them, in
generally applying the Test measure to students, are instrumental in the
demise of scholarship. Now we know next to nothing about the intricasies
of thermodynamics and the idiosyncrasies of structural design, but we will
bet our bottom dollar that there are “A” students in the classes of instruc
tors teaching thermodynamics and structural design who know less about
those subjects than many so-rated “B” or “C” students in the same classes.
And we still believe that there are instructors who know that these students
are learning about all they can be expected to learn from their courses, who
will, because of a few mediocre quiz grades, brand such men as mediocre or
poor students. Not every instructor is guilty, of course, but there are far
too many tares amidst the wheat.
As to the professor having to be a mind reader in order to find out
what a student knows without depending absolutely upon quizzes; that is
buncombe. One normal human being who associates with another for the
space of a scholastic term or session, and is not able to find out what the oth
er does or does not know without resorting to monthly quizzing should hardly
be leading lads along the road to knowledge. We trust there will be no sui
cides over at Bachelor’s Club because of that statement.
We have no apologies to make for that editorial. We believe that all
is not yet perfect in the instructor-grade-student relation, and we have said
so. Reposte, Mr. Faires, and welcome.
IS IT A LOSS?
Some colleges in the United States are devoting their efforts to eradi
cate themselves of students who do not reach or maintain the requirements
set forth in the college catalogues.
Perhaps those “undesirables,” we will call them for the sake of con-
veniency, have paid hard, cold cash for their registration into a college.
Perhaps they have spent some three hundreds of dollars in an effort to
attend that institution of higher education for a short period of time.
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