well known that frequent visits by a student to the college health service for minor physical complaints are apt to mean that the student is actually having emotional problems." The rate of Scholar visits was found to be no higher than that of their classmates at any of the 11 institutions.

Proceeding to an evaluation of the Scholars' adjustment in the positive sense, Dr. Farnsworth and his colleagues emphasized the complexity of weighing over-all results in view of the diverse social and academic climates found on the eleven campuses. They noted that values and hence standards of adjustment were hardly uniform among the participating institutions. At some colleges and universities, the psychiatrists found "both the faculty and students place too great an emphasis on interpersonal relations, on being a `good fellow' and on being `well-rounded' at the expense of educational values." As an extreme example of this, they cited the attitude of students at one institution who expressed doubt in interviews as to whether the Scholars could adequately participate in social activities "as among other things they were too young on moral grounds to take a drink."

On such a campus, the psychiatrists observed, "failure to conform to social mores is apt to be severely penalized by the other students." Such a climate, however, did not prevail at most of the institutions participating in the Early Admission Program. Generally speaking, social activities at these colleges were not considered as ends in themselves, but as one of several means of facilitating mature development.

At the outset, the members of the Farnsworth team defined satisfactory adjustment to college in these terms:

What is desirable is not adjustment to the group at all costs, not good interpersonal relations in all situations, but real autonomy, i.e. men sufficiently free from both social and cultural pressures and from their own inner biases, needs and drives that they are able to assess the realities of situations and act on this basis. Although such men prize warm interpersonal relations and getting along with the group as a satisfactory part of living, they are not ends in themselves.