Why Students Leave College Editor's Note: The following was submitted by a correspondent who remains anonvmous: W e commend it to such consideration as it merits, thinking thaf it has " a bearing on the title.
CENE: The science lecture room in ANY Uni- about. It is of particular interest to note that the verslty. Dr. A. Dubb, a brilliant young research ism remains unchanged after all this and can be used scientist and recent Ph.G. from SUM College, is meet- again on a fresh portion of fussbudgetum with equally ing his beginning class for the h t time. Registration striking results." Question by student: "Is anything left of the fussfonns have been completed, the notebooks are open, budget when the dithers have been liberated?" the genial doctor mounts the rostrum. "A very pertinent question indeed, and I am pleased LISTEN: "Our lecture this morning will consider the subject to note that you are asking questions from the floor. of 'Dithers' and the particular question, 'How many When the available dithers have been completely redithers are there in a fussbudget?' Dithers are very moved from the fussbudgetum and the unchanged widespread in occurrence. Our environment subjects ism recovered for further use, i t is fonnd that the fussus to dithers in one form or another from birth, and budgets have been permanently changed. The residour continued physical and mental existence depends uum no longer behaves like a fussbudget. When upon an intimate relationship between the meiabolic subjected to the proper environmental conditions, it processes which take place within the human organism was found by Erisipilas that the residuum gave frowns utilizing the dithers which come from the external and smiles in equal numbers. Under d i e r e n t enworld. Ditheration, or, as the phenomenon is more vironmental conditions, the frowns and smiles seemed popularly called, 'dithering,' is widespread: but to to counteract each other, and the product had none of appreciate fully its fundamental importance, we must the characteristics of either smiles or frowns. This entire topic will be discussed in detail when we take up firstexamine more fully the nature of dithers. the study of smogersis. Does this cover your question "The early workers in this field had quite an erroneous idea of the dither, but through the efforts of a adequately? "Naturally we are interested in how many dithers few distinguished scientists our knowledge has grown until now almost every chid knows that every Dag- we can get from a fussbudget, so,. in the interests of wood has its 'Dithers.' It was late in 1783 that the precise scientific %phraseology,let us define a wrinkle distinguished Dr. Anon astounded the scientific world as 1/100 part of the weight of a dither. It is then by his announcement of the then-revolutionary hy- fonnd experimentally that the relative weights of the pothesis which still bears his name. In simple lang- fussbudget and the residuum are 766 and 466, respecuage he said, 'Dithers always come in pairs.' Now tively, and of the frown and smile 244 and 222. These dithers have never been observe& individually, but relative weights enable us to determine how many only in considerable numbers, and sinc+one dither is dithers are present in a single fussbudget., However, almost exactly like every other dither, it is not easy to the wrinkle is too small a quantity for practical pursee why they should come in pairs. Today we know poses, so instead we use the mug wrinkle except when that dithers are more complex in structure than was we have, as is the case with dithers, an association of originally supposed, being composed of splugs and two or more, when we call the basic group the leke, and nopes. This topic is far too complex for us to go into speak commonly of a mug leke. "I see that our time is almost up, but I hope this brief this morning, but suffice i t to say (and we shall further explore this fascinating subject in a later lecture) i t is introdfiction will clarify the following problems which the attraction between the nopes of the dithers which should trouble you little after our lecture this morning. holds them in pairs except, of course, in the case when The topic for our next meeting will be 'Dithering.' three dithers are associated in a reactive, unstable Ten minutes will be allowed for these questions. "1 (25 points). Using the characters S for smile, union which we call trithers. "But getting back to the subject of this discussion, Fr for frown, and D for dithers, write a simple symwe find that when fussbudgets become heated, they bolized equation which will represent the production of dithers from fussbudgets. Note: the ism is not coml~ tend toliberatedithers. ~ x ~ e r i m e n t aitl wasobserved that a small ouantitv of 'ism' added to a ort ti on or the monly included in this type of equation. Do not forcommon fussbudgetum (material composed entirely get that dithers in the free state come in pairs. "2. Calculate the mug lekes of dithers produced of fussbudgets) would bring about an extraordinary rate of liberation of dithers. The fussbudget does not from 720 wrinkles of fussbudgets. Assume the dithers become so heated, but complete liberation of all the to be under normal conditions. If you cannot answer dithers contained in the fussbudget is quickly brought this anestion. state what additional data are needed." 607
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