About One-Tenth Is Potential Rate Of Probationers

According to past records, about 11.2% of the student body will be potential probational candidates after the Mid-Year returns are in.

Ever since 1929, the grades turned in to the Dean's Office have shown a tendency to rise and fall exactly contrary to the general national prosperity. While the percentage of probational candidates reached the high water mark of 13.4% in 1930, ever since 1935 it has stayed nearly always at 11.2%.

Another High in 1934

Another 13.2% high was reached in 1934 when the stock market was on its way up, but it was only the next year that the percentage took a took point drop along with the market and general business slump.

According to the theory that Dean Phelps has maintained over the past few years, the slight market rise with the war this year should send the percentage of potential flunkies up.

Current figures may fall out of the regular calculations, however, because the eleven per cent figure has recurred so consistently over the last few years that it seems improbable that it will change very much after the smoke has cleared from the present conflagration in Memorial Hall and vicinity.