High School Men Lead

High school students hold nearly a 2 to 1 advantage over private school students on the scholastic honor roll at Dartmouth, it is shown by figures compiled for the academic year 1934-35 by Robert O. Conant '13, registrar of the College. Of the 445 men with a year average of 3.0 or better, 64.5 per cent were high school men and 35.5 per cent private school men. The number of high school and private school graduates in the whole College is about even, the former comprising 51 per cent of the student body and the latter 49 per cent.

Figures on the geographic distribution of honor students would seem to indicate that the brightest men are coming to Dartmouth from Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Connecticut. These four states, having delegations of at least the average size of 48, were the only ones to equal or better the College average of 19.2 per cent of its men on the honor roll. Among the other states having large delegations, Vermont, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania finished in that order.

Regardless of the size of the state delegations, Wyoming and the Panama Canal Zone led with 100 per cent (one man each), followed by Alabama and Nebraska with per cent each, Washington with 50 per cent, Indiana with percent, Hawaii, Kentucky and Kansas with per cent each, and California with 30 per cent.

On straight numbers, New York led with 88 men on the honor roll, followed by Massachusetts with 86, New Jersey with 57, New Hampshire with 34, Connecticut with 32. Illinois with 25, Ohio with 24, Pennsylvania with 13, and Vermont with 11.