The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-25
Deans Report Studies and Less Attention Paid Outside Answers
 Regarding Education Given Inquiry Broadcast

ernment, economies and sciences generally, said the professor, and in literature, Eng llsf composition and the languages the women students superior. They do not expect to use mathematics and science Lu any extent in after life, which may explain their indifferent standing in these subjects.
 Prof. Horne, also a psychologist, finds the reason for higher marks going to women in the fact that examinations involve memory. lie thinks the young men would excel if the examinations were based on the show of practical Judgment.
 Dean John R. Turner said that the women students eXcelled because as a college course was originally laid down for edu- eating young men, it was not so well adapted to women and therefore they had to be more dlilgent in study. This statement frlned by questioning 43 girls and 43 men about the number of hours a day they de- voted to study An average of one hour a day admitted by the men to be their work cut Of class, but the women on an average studied two hours out of six
 A comparison of marks of equal num- Der Of mon and women was made at tho college The figures were: S3 women had As. l07 B's, Il C's, 27 D's, 4 Els. Of the men 46 had As, 100 B's IS C's, 4S Ds, Els and F's. The average of the marks gave the women S4.i6 per cent. and the men 76-91 per cent.
 The dean of the University of Maine T N Hart. replies that women students there excel men in aIi subjects except ma thenatics physics and philosopty-that is, in all sub- Ject5 except those of a more analytical char acter In general he thinks that the usual college course is specially adapted for men, but he believes that the courses at Maine are well adapted to the needs of the young women who take them. He writes:
 Young women have ranked higher than men, but we believe that this superiority is due not to intellectual superiority but 10 more strict application to college work. The average ranking of the men in our fourteen Greek letter frats is slightly lower than the average for non-frater1ity men. The aver. age ranking of the women in the four so- Torltles IS slightly higher than that of the women who are not sorority members The superiority of rank of the women over the men In both classes is somewhat marked
 J. J. Pettyjohn, assistant to the president of the University of Minnesota, reports on tEe figures of the present acadenlical year as being typical. Failures and conditions in the fall quarter were 22 Is women. IT 2-3 men. These figures are not in direct ratio to the student enrolment, 30 1-5 being women and 69 4-5 men, From these two sets of fig ures he finds that the number of failures and conditions on the part of women Is slightly less than those of men.
 He adds: Tt is accurate. I believe. to say that there is practically no difference in the grade of scholarship attained by and women in the University of Minnesota" Girls Rate Higher Than Men
 Tn Middle Western College
 A middle Western college affords the fol- lowing data:
 Women excel in languages and
 literature.
 Women are better average students
 than
 We have means of knowing whether
 not women give daily more time to
 school work than snen; probably they do.
 As a rule the records of this college for
 the last five years have shown women to
 be intellectually superior to men-that Is.
 women have won better daily marks and
 passed examinations more successfully
 and with higher marks at these exan1ina-
 tiOns.
 In Middlebury College the percentage for women during the semester 1920-1921 S3.5Z per cent. in comparison with 1921 per cent. average of the men.
 Dean Charles w. Stoddart of the Penn