Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-15
H-SERY!CE MEN ARE CATCHINC UP
 IN THEIR STUDIES
Men Who Were at College Before War Back
 Again

Washington, May 14.-The bureau of Education of the Department of the interior has decided that as rule the eX-soldler in educational institu- tlons IS doing work about the same as before entering the service-this a1ter summarizing returns to an in qulry made by one of the church boards of education
 One college president reported that ms ex-soldier students had ot done very well and that they were rest less and found it hard to concentrate on their work. The same answer was received from another institution where l6 eX-service men had regis terede for the beginning of the school year. Two of them had withdrawn.
 The rest did not do as well as hoped because of unrest due to indescision as to the future they wanted to fol- low and the resulting quandary as to what preparation they should make.
 Excellent" at Albion
 Albion College, however, reported that the majority of ex-servce men had done excellent work. especially those who had been in college before enterlnng the servic. A number of other institutions reported their re- turned men doing work above the average. The report from Missouri Wesleyan College was that these men were doing far better than they did previous to the war, the grades indi- eating that the work of the service men is of a very high order. She per cent students receiving all "A"I grades were all ex-service men. There were very few failures among the returned men at this college.
 The majority of schools did not accentuate either success or failure of exservice men in the first semes- ter's work, but on the whole the men were reported as having rapidly re- adjusted themselves to their work.
 In answer to a question as to how the student body survived the mid year examinations, the majority of colleges reported an Improvement in the average of previous years. As usual, failures in individual courses were greater in number than fail ures such as to exclude the student from continuing.
 The percentage of complete fail ures was variously reported from 2 to 6 per cent. One school reported financial reasons and reasons otherI than scholarship as causing a loss of 42 studnts, whereas scholarship caus- ed loss of only IF. Of the first six were seniors who were graduated.
 At the University of Chattanooga the midyear examinations showed the lowest percentage of freshman fail ures in the history of the univer- sity. This was attributed to bulle tin published at the end of each | 30-day quiz period, with the names and scholarship averages of the first 10 in each of the college classes. This great deal of profitable 1 rivalry, it is said.
 Men and Women Compared
 When asked to compare the grades received by the men and by the wo- men, the almost universal answer was that the grades of women averaged higher. These statements were quali- fled in some cases by supplementary 
 Chancellor Buchtell of the Univer- sity of Denver calls attention to the fact that women as rule do not earn their living, and that on the other hand great number of the men earn their living in whole or in part.
 Montana Wesleyan reports com- piled from work of the first semes- ter show that there are fewer fail ares among the women, and that as l whole a better grade of work is lone by them. The men surpass in having some of their number attain Il l high rank. In the college depart nent 95 per cent of the women passed n all their subjects. The men show .d 85 per cent with no failures, while per cetn failed completely. The other 8 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, record not made by any If the women.