ABSTRACT
Less dramatic are a number of similar cases of boys distrustful of their own capacities and interests whose doubts are only increased by receiving large graduate fellowships for advanced work in the fields of their college majors. Changes of goals to assure status have often been recounted. By the end of their sophomore year at college, boys of intellectual capacity whose leadership in high school had been assured by participation in athletics and other activities have had a revulsion against all such pursuits as commonplace and ordinary, as opening no path to distinction. In many cases there seems to be little relationship between a students estimate of himself and the opinions of his teachers or his classmates. Students often complain of the "exaggerated need to compete at Swarthmore". The roots of the rebelliousness so prevalent on the campus often go back to the earliest years, but occasionally it bursts out suddenly in the midst of the college career.
