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Show STANDARDS OF SCHOLARSHIP Two vIowb aro bold among Bchool tenchors and superintendents, ns to what shall bo dono with pupils who fall to keep up. Tho old ttmo teacher teach-er was rathor Inclined to pnBB thoni along. Tho student, It was argued, would loso interest it compelled to drop back Into nnotlior class. Ho hnd lirobobly got nbout all that can bo had out of that grado or stago of his work.; Ho will got moro to lot him go on than ho will to mako him grind over tho samo work again. A fow years ugo thoro was a wldo upread Impression that a good ath-loto ath-loto could slip along through almost nuy collogo. Of rocont years, both In oltogos and high Bchools, thoro Booms to bo a Btrlctor fooling nbout scholarship requirements for nth Inlna That many of tho collogca nro now Imposing sovoro tosts was suggested by tho iiowb roporta of tho past wook to tho effect that nt Cornell University, Univer-sity, 144 mon liavo boon dropped ns tho rosult of tho midyear "oxams." Also 1C9 othors woro placed on probation pro-bation and denied many privileges. Probably sonio students do loso heart on being dropped back. Also tho hotter portion of tho class, who aro allowed to go on, mako a distinct gain by parting compnny with tho eluggards. An Indolent pupil Is moro baggago. Explaining things to him, which ho should havo workod out for hlmsolf, robs tho rost of tho class of valuablo tlmo. Thoy all tond to drop to his low standard. Bright pupils comparo their work with his, and aro satisfied with a mcdlocro porformanco. Tho oxporlonco of slipping along easily by the tests of school or collogo col-logo must demorallzo a student. It will not bo thus when ho gets Into business. Thoro competition will havo Its offoct, his Inefficiency will quickly bo eliminated, and ho will drop Into tho hack eddlos of Uto. Ho noods in tho seclusion ot school, a tasto of tho samo sharp Jolts that ho will got when ho venturos out Into tho cold world. |