At Wisconsin,
where the Scholars made an especially impressive academic record,
nearly two thirds of the graduating Scholars in each group received
honors, as against about one-third of the Comparisons and a fifth
of the class as a whole. Twenty-six per cent of the 1951 Scholars
and 30 per cent of the 1952 Scholars who graduated were elected to
Phi Beta Kappa, as against 10 per cent of the 1951 Comparisons and
18 per cent of the 1952 Comparisons.
At Utah, the
picture was substantially the same. Here, too, nearly two thirds of
the graduating Scholars in each group received honors, as against
50 per cent of the 1951 Comparisons and 41 per cent of the 1952
Comparisons. Nine per cent of the 1951 Scholars and 22 per cent of
the 1952 Scholars who graduated were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, as
against 1.3 per cent and 5 per cent of their classmates.
At Chicago,
nearly one third of each group of graduating Scholars received
honors, a proportion substantially greater than that of the
Comparison students. Of 12 student aides selected by the dean in
1955 to assist with official functions of the University
(appointments made on the combined basis of scholarship and
citizenship) fully half were 1951 Scholars. Two of the 1952
Scholars won National Science Foundation Fellowships, two won
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, and one won a Rhodes Scholarship.
One of the
1951 Scholars at Oberlin also won a Rhodes Scholarship.
Of the 11
students who in 1955 received the highest honors Columbia College
bestows, three were members of the 1951 Scholar group. Sixteen of
the 1952 Scholars graduated with honors and ten were elected to Phi
Beta Kappa. By contrast, eight of the Comparisons received honors
and seven were elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Among the
1951 Scholars at Goucher, 14 out of the 19 appeared on the Dean's
list for at least one year, and 13 were so cited in two or more
years. Four received special honors at graduation and five were
elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The 1951 Comparison group had only three
Dean's scholars and only one of these was cited in