AMONG OUR DEBTS to Dr. Levenson, we must be grateful to him for having spared us a review of the literature on college dropouts. This literature is very extensive and until quite recently has been uniformly depressing. To realize how different this presentation is, one need only contrast it with papers concluding that 15 per cent drop out because they do not like the food, 4 or that 32 per cent would have remained if they had been given higher grades. Instead of counting them, deploring them, compiling arithmetical averages of their grade points semester by semester or, like Francine's father,