Scholarship Rules May Be Widened

Failure to attain Dean's List standing may no longer spell certain loss of scholarships for Freshmen.

By the provisions of a new plan now being worked out by the Committee on Scholarships, near border-line cases will receive special consideration before grants are revoked, officials indicated last night. First practical application of the plan will come up this summer, when final grades for the spring term are completed.

The move simply involves the general extension of the procedure already used in National Scholarships, Freshman Dean Delmar Leighton '19 explained in the absence of F.S. Von Stade, Jr. '38, scholarship director.

Special Considerations

Under the system, missing Group Three rating by a narrow margin would not mean automatic loss of a scholarship, Dean Leighton said. Instead the board would consider such factors as other activities, special recommendations, and actual need of individual cases before the award was withdrawn.

Whether the plan will apply only to Freshmen or to the entire College was not revealed, since the final decisions have not yet been released by the Scholarship Office.

"Grade Grabbing"

Main reason behind the move is the recent high number of scholarship students who have fallen below Group Three standing in their first year. "Many times a C-plus instead of a B-minus has meant a boy cannot continue in College, just because he has fallen into some hard luck," Dean Leighton stated. Because of the existence of the present arbitrary rule, an existence of the present arbitrary rule, an excessive emphasis is placed on "grade grabbing," he remarked.

Tied up for years by the old stipulation, the Scholarship Office last summer initiated a study which was the forerunner of the change in policy.