The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-20


 WOMEN MORE AMBITIOUS. @
 ''In obtaining marks women undoubt- edly lead men," said President George E. MacLean, of the University of Iowa. ''The causes that lead. to this are. in my opinion, the facts that the advantages to women are newer. and that they are more ambitious to excel. In the Iowa College of Liberal Arts, where men and women are nearly equal in number, , about three-fourths of those having the highest standing are women. That they lead men in actual scholarship, however, I seriously doubt"
 Lawrence University. at Appleton. Wis, is one of the oldest, eo-educational colleges in the United States. having been established in 1S47. President PIantz said: 5s-*r-;.s>- -s "Our records show scholarship honors to run comparatively even between men and women. This. judgment is based on the average of fifty-four graduating classes. In tfe last ten years such honors have been won by fifty men and forty-six women.
 'eThe average standing of the young women students is above that Of the | young men, said Gustav Andreen, president of Augustana college. at Rock Island, H., the principal Swedish institution of learning in this country. 'tThe young man in college is more apt than the young woman to interest him. self in a variety of things, such as sports, the social side, of college life, l lounging, chatting and smoking and keeping late hours, all of which things keep him sreml doing his best work. But apart from this a lack of the pow CT of concentration and of sustained eff fort at studies seems to be constitution al at a certain period of a young mans development. The advantage is there- fore with the young woman student, who is usually more mature at the age when college studies are undertaken and quicker of comprehension
 EXCEL IN LANGUAGES.
 Women show greater interest and ability in the study of language, both ancient and modern, said c. F. Nash president of Lombard college, at Gales burg, III. though on a broad view of the educational field am inclined to E ltlllh lhcll ONliss thCSH do not show slight superiority. The average grades made by men and wo-. men students here are closely parallel, with a slight advantage, generally l speaking, for the men.
 President H. A, Gobin, of Depauw university, Greencastle, Ind, expressed himself as unable to find any apprecia- l ble difference between the scholastic capabilities of men and women.
 T have known many instances,'' he. said In which women were better than men in classes. but think this would | not be the case if men would refrain from athletics and general college af- fairs. In my own department philoso-. phy-the best grades are always taken 1 in greater number by women. The election to Phi Beta Kappa at Depauw this spring resulted in the election of l six young woman and one young man.
 The membership of Phi Beta Kappa at Wisconsin is made Up about equally of men and women, said Acting Pres ident Birge, of the University of Wis. consin. That is the only basis we have for an estimate of the connpara- tive scholarship of the two sexes. But those at the university who have paid some especial attention to this question l say that the women students exceed the men in scholarship by about ten per l.eent. on the average. "
 The men students at Wisconsin large- ly exceed the women students iii num- bers. <. x
 AT NORTHWESTERN.
 The ability of women to cope with men on at least equal terms ii | large | institution is shown at Northwestern university, where the Phi Beta Kappa society is composed about equally of linen and women. There are ninety nine graduates this year at Uorthwest- ern fifty being men and forty-nine wo-. men. Ten men and ten women We're elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Many of our young men, X said Dean Holgate, of I the college of liberal arts 'are handi-. capped by the necessity of earning their | way through college. Very few of the. young women have this necessity of l spending a 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 seye- ral years.'',
 We cannot tell from records any-5 thing about the comparative scholar ship of men and women said Presi-s dent Cyrus Northrop, of. the University | of Minnesota. We have abolished the grading of students by marks and the | valedictory and salutary Wehn the. old system was in vogue here, however, the valedictorian was as often a wo-s ! man as mon. There is a general in1- pression that women attain higher scholarship in science, literature and arts, but it may often be due to consci-I entious and faithful work rather than ! to superior ability. There are some studies leading to manly employment, such as physics and engineering, which are almost exclusively pursued by men, but women who enter these courses usually hold their own. " WOMEN GRADE HIGHER.
 President King, of Oberlil college,