STATISTICS INDICATE ADVANCE IN LAST TWO COLLEGE YEARS

Consistent improvement in scholarship on the part of most students from the end of the sophomore year until graduation is indicated in statistics prepared by Associate Dean Husband. Investigating the scholastic records during the junior and senior years of the classes of 1921, 1922, and 1923, Dean Husband found a total of 1513 grades raised, 1005 grades reduced and 366 unchanged. In every semester of junior and senior years in 1921, 1922, and 1923 classes there is an upward tendency except that in the second semester of senior year there was a larger number in the class of 1921 who declined in scholarship than the number who improved.

Of the three classes examined the present senior class, reported one of the best classes scholastically in many years, shows by far the best record. Of this class 233 men attained a higher ranking at the end of the first semester of their junior year than they had held at the end of their sophomore year, while 111 declined from their former mark and 25 showed no change. In the second semester of the junior year 168 men of the class succeeded in raising their mark above that of the preceding semester when 161 men fell back, and 29 remained at the same grade. In the first semester of the senior year, completed last February, advances in grades over the grades of the last semester of the junior year were recorded for 221 men, while only 109 dropped back and 40 showed no change.

An interesting feature of the statistics presented is the indication that more men succeed in raising their grades in the first semester of the college year above what they were at the end of " the preceding year than raise their grades in the second semester above what they were at the end of the first.