Slow Down or Take Out Insurance Policy, Zimmerman Counsels Grade-Hungry Grinds

When Dean Bender referred to a prevailing "unhealthy emphasis on grades," he wasn't just being friendly, according to Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology. In a warning to all eager beavers in the current issue of journal of Living Zimmerman has words of cheer for the perennial procrastinator.

Ambition, academic or otherwise, must he made of sterner stuff than the average American male, the sociology fears. Excessive drive and will-in-win, even if it's only for a B-minus, can cost today's Horatto Alger 10 to 15 years of his life under modern tension.

Zimmerman's assertions, not calculated to cheer the life insurance societies or the honor grades man, was that tension and cagerness to get ahead mean less time to get there. Cracking one more book today is cracking the stomach lining of tomorrow, he suggests.

Phi Beta Kappa wearers do not develop plenteous paunches to support the golden key without accompanying ulcers, he implies.

Terming the philosophy of success a suicidal code of living, Zimmerman calls for order and system in dally affaire. At first, he admits, it may be difficult to acquire the art of carefree, but the ability, Zimmerman promises, can be achieved with unremitting practice.