College Athletes in Class - NYTimes.com Re "Acing the Course at Chapel Hill" (editorial, Jan. 6): College courses tailored to athletes go back a long way. As a student at Washington and Lee in the late 1940s, I unwittingly signed up for a psychology course whose only other students were eight members of the college athletic teams. When I alone volunteered an answer to a rather simple question thrown out to the class at large, the professor, an obvious friend of all the others, asked mildly, "How come this strange boy is the only one here who can answer that?"