In reviewing
the Scholars' problems, the Farnsworth team noted that the special
academic and social arrangements made for the Scholars at some
institutions the first year of the experiment frequently aroused
"resentment, bitterness and hostility" in the Scholars. These
feelings, they continued, resulted from the desire on the part of
the students to be accepted by their peers, and their desire not to
be stereotyped as the "scholarly type" or as "babies."
"The
excessive concern of the faculties for the Scholars," the
psychiatrists said, "was similar to that in 1945 when the veterans
returned to the campuses. In both cases, the expectations were not
realized; the students did well.... As a result of the excellent
adjustment of the Scholars during the first year, the subsequent
groups of Scholars were handled in a much more relaxed manner by
the faculties."
The
Farnsworth team found only two areas in which the Scholars
experienced some difficulties in excess of their Comparison
students and classmates. One was in the matter of dating during
their freshman and sophomore years, and the other in securing
employment during summer vacations. The men experienced the dating
difficulties and the girls the vocational difficulties.
On the
vocational difficulty, Farnsworth and his colleagues noted that
most college students work during their summer vacations. The male
Scholars had no difficulty finding jobs on a par with their older
classmates, but such was not the case with the girls, many of whom
could not get jobs because of their age. This, they found, was a
source of unhappiness to some, but it was only a limited problem
and did not unduly affect their college adjustment.
As for the
dating problem, the psychiatrists found that it was a source of
unhappiness to some male Scholars early in college. "Many boys
spoke of the difficulties of obtaining dates with college girls
during their freshman and sophomore years," they noted. "Difficulty
in getting women college freshmen to date them was not confined to
the freshman Scholars. In general, such