Bright Veterans

THE SUPERIOR SCHOLASTIC WORK being done by veterans who have returned to Dartmouth is clearly indicated in figures compiled for a representative group of 269 men who resumed their college studies last term. The general average for the group was 2.63, as compared with the 2.3 which has been the peacetime College average for many years. Ninety-five of these men, or 35 per cent, attained 3.0 or better, and 73 had Phi Beta Kappa standing for the term, ten with perfect 4.0 averages.

The married veterans did far better than their single brethren, pointing some sort of moral or perhaps just the advantage of age, since most of the married men are in the older classes. The domiciled group of 56 veterans had a combined average of 3.06, with 28 achieving Phi Beta rank of 3.2 and six making perfect 4.0 records. Thirtyfive men, or 62 per cent of the married group had 3.0 or better, as compared with 35 per cent of the veterans in general.

Age and maturity obviously were factors in the scholastic work of the veterans, for the scholastic averages by classes are in steadily declining order from 1941 through 1948. By classes the standings were as follows: 1941, three men, 3.50; 1942, sixteen men, 3.15; 1943, thirteen men, 3.05; 1944, fortytwo men, 2.84; 1945, forty-three men, 2.83; 1946, seventy-seven men, 2.49; 1947, forty-six men, 2.34; 1948, twenty- seven men, 2.24.