Fall Makeup Exams Have Been Used for Many Years at Yale

Further investigation into the action of the Yale Faculty Committee in removing Platt and Scott, prominent football players, from probation, revealed last night that a total of 150 men took the fall makeup examinations this year and that until two years ago any man who so much as passed a makeup examine September was immediately taken off probation.

Yale's custom of having makeup exams in the fall is of long standing. Any man who fails a subject in the spring must undergo a re-trial when he comes back to college, and until two years ago all those who passed such an exam were immediately reinstated and allowed to represent Yale on the athletic field.

In 1934 the ruling was made that if a student failed an examination at finals, although he would still have to take a makeup, he would stay on probation until midyears. Special consideration was given, however, to these who had "ability credits," that is, 75 or over, in two or more subjects and those who passed the makeups with "quality credits."

Last week 150 men took the makeups and 33 were released from probation including Platt and Scott. Both of these men studied during the summer with the hope of gaining exemption in the fall. Scott got an 81 in his exam, while Platt got a 78 at the same time had four "qualities" in other subjects, thus relieving himself of probation under the second part of the rule.

Gallagher, Varsity substitute center last fall, barely missed the necessary number of points and is still on pro.

Due to the publicity given these examinations, information was received from New Haven that next year "three will probably be an iron-clad rule made with no special cases for those with high marks."

The publicity over Platt, Gallagher, and Scott arose largely from a premature story printed last Friday that both of these football players were still ineligible. When it was officially announced by the Dean's office that Platt and Scott had passed the makeups, a flood of queries came from the metropolitan press as to why the Dean's office had changed its mind in the case of these two athletes. Actual fact of the matter was that the Dean's Office had not changed it's mind suddenly and that Scott and Platt had taken the usual makeups in accordance with custom and had passed them.