White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-30
EX-SERv|CE MEN
ARE CATCHING UP
Resume Their College Courses
With Renewed Energy.
SOME Of THEM ARE RESTLESS
In Some Subjects Women Students
Have Lead, but to OBJECT This q
Greater Number Of the Men Have
Attained a High Rank-Men Rapid.
~ Rsadjust Themselves to Work
Freshmen Mortality Low.

RktSiVe0 q HsUU
~ asadjust Themselves TO Work
Freshmen Mortality Low.
The bureau OF edlestio Of the de-
partment of the interior has decided
that AZ q rule the ex-soldier In educa-
tienal institutions is doing work about
The same as before entering the serv-
ice-this after summarizing returns 10
an inquiry made by one Of the church
boards of education.
One college president reported that
his ex-soldier students had not done
very well and that they were restless
and found ii hard to concentrate on
their work. The same answer was re-
ceived from another institution where
10 ex-service men had registered at
the beginning Of the school year. Two
of these had withdrawn. The test did
not do as well as hoped because OF
unrest due to indecision as TO the fu-
lure they wanted TO follow and the
resulting %quandary as to what prepa-
ration they should make.
DO GxCeitenk WoTN.
Albion college, however, reported
that the majority of ex-serviee men
had done excellent work, especially
those who had been In college before
entering the service. A number OF
other institutions reported their re-
turned men doing work above the av-
erage. The report from Missouri
wesleyan college was that these men
we're doing far above what they did
previous to the war, the grades indi'
eating that the work of the service
iatS Is OF 4 very high order. The y
PER cent students receiving ali "A"
grades were all ex-service men. There
we're very few failures among the re-
turned men 1T this college,
The majority of schools did not &C
e>ntuate either success or failure OF
er-service men In the first semester's
work. but GU the whole the men were
reported as having rapidly readjusted
themselves to their work.
In answer to q question as TO how
the student body survived the mid
Y8UI txaullAlAtiOlt. ~ tuHJutAtJ W.
colleges reported an improvement In
the average Of previous years. As
usual, failures In individual courses
we're greater In number than failures
sach as 10 exclude the student from
continuing.
The percentage Of complete failures
was varIously reported from 2 to 6
usr cent. One school reported fnan-
ciai reasons and reasons other than
scholarship as causing a loss OF AZ
students, whereas scholarship caused
= loss OF only IT. OF the FIRST III
Der six were seniors who were gradu-
ated.
Low Freshman Mortality.
Al the University of Chattanooga
the midyear examinations showed the
lowest percentage of freshman NOR.
tality In the history of the university.
This was attributed to a bulletin pub
lished at the end of each S0-day quiz
period. with the names aud scholar
ship averages of the first ten Ia each
of the college classes. This stimulated
n great deal Of profitable rivalry, Il Il
said.
When asked to compare the grades
received By men and by women the
almost universal answer was that the
grades of women averaged higher.
These statements were qualified In
some cases by supplementary explana-
lions.
Chancellor Buchtei of the univer.
sity OF Denver calls attention to the
fact that women as a rule do not
eArn their living. and that on the
other hand a great number OF the
men earn their living In whole or In
part.
Montana Wesleyan reports com
piled from work of the first semester
show that there are fewer failures
among the women. and that as a whole
q better grade Of work Is done by
them. The men surpass IN having
some of their number attain a high
rank. In the college department 95
per cent of the women passed In all
their subjects. The men showed s.
per cent with no failures. while I per
eent failed completely. The other 13
per cent failed In some subjects and
passed In others. In attaining "A"
grades the men surpassed the women.
Nine per cent of the men received all
a" grades. a recoai no. made by any
of the women.