Myton Free Press | 1922-02-02 | Page 2 | College Students to be Classified According to Mental Alertness

j College Students to Be Classified According to Mental Alertness By PRESIDENT W. W D. D SCOTT Northwestern University The time will soon come when university students will be classified according to their mental alertness The brilliant students will be classed by themselves and forced to I do more and harder work The mediocre 4 students will be be required to do only what th their ir mental capacity will permit i We v c are arc already separating some some stud students according to their mental alertness At the end of the first semester the students in certain classes are graded and the more brilliant placed in a section by themselves They are arc are required d to do special work I. I r. r In In the medical school we have gradually increased the requirements until ulti only the mentally alert are arc able to take the courses successfully Because of the surplus of applicants we have been considering making students stu- stu rde dents wishing to enter the the school school pass mental tests