The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

fin which women were better than men in classes. but I think this would not s be the case if men would refrain from athletics and general college affairs. In my own depart
 ment. philosophy. the best grades are always
 taken in greater number by women." The election to Phi Beta Kappa at Depauw this Spring resulted in the election of six young women and young man.
 The membership of Phi Beta Kappa at Wisconsin Is made up about equally of men and women." said Acting President Birge of the University of Wisconsin. That Is the only basis we have for an estimate of the comparative scholarship of the two sexes But those at the university who have paid some special attention to this question say that the women students exceed the men in scholarship by about 10 per cent. on the av- erage."
 The men students at wisconsIn largely ez- ceed the women students in numbers.
 At Northwestern. &
 The ability of women to cope with men on at least equal terms. in a large institutiou Is shown at Northwestern University. where ths Phi Beta Kappa Society is composed about equally of men and women. There are ninety nine graduates this year at Northwestern. fifty being men and forty-nine women. Ten men and ten women were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Many of our young men," said Dean Holgate of the college of hberai srs-. 'are handicapped by the necessity ofearufng their way through college ervy few of the young women have this necessity of spending q good part of their time at work rather than study. The rank of young men and young women in studies has been about the same here for ssv- eral years" 3t
 we cannot tell from records anything ahoes the comparative scholarship of men and wo- men," said President Cyrus Northrcp of the 1, University of Minnesota We have aboi- ished the grading of students by marks and the vaIedictory and saIutatory. When tho old system was in vogue here. however.i the vale. [ dictorian was as often a woman aa man. : There is a general impression that women ae- tain higher scholarship in acienee, literatmro , and arts, but 1t may often be due to con- soientious and faithful work rather than to superior ability. There arc some studies lead- , ing to manly employment such as physics and engineering. which arc almost exclusively pursued by men. but women who enter these courses usually hold their owa.'
 Women Grade Higher.
 President King of Oberlin College said: 'So far as class records are concerned the experience of seventy years at oberlin seems to show that the average grade of women in scholarship is probably a little higher than the average grade of men. But the men on C II little lower average of class work often show T quite as good results in examination as wo- 7 men who have higher grade of marking for daily work. And it is not believed here that marks are complete test of the scholarship of a student
 Women excel naturally along some lines = and men along some others" said President w. B, Stone of Purdue University. land ie is unfair to these lines to make com parisons. Generally speaking. women quick and ready in work requiring the exercise Of memory: they repeat and copy with facility and they keen of perception and intuition. But when called upon to their powers of observation and deduction they are not the equals of men .
 we have no direct means of comparing the scholarship of men and women at Michi- Ran." said President J. B. Angel of the University of Michigan, for we have no mark ing system. As the men outnumber the women by four to one generally and the proportion of women varies in different departments. even impressions are of little use. However. will say that women at Michigan make fine records, and we proud of them"
 President w H, P. Faunoe of Brown Uni versty thinks there Is no appreciable differ- ence between men and women students as to scholarship. Tn Brown and it's adjunct. Pembroke Hall" he said. the men and Wo-et men are equally proficient. It is natural for certain number of each sex to excel'