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Show I. GIRLS NOT BETTER STUDENTS By CARROLL R. RF.F.D, Minneapolis School Superintendent. Minneapolis schools are just running "true to form" with fchoolB in other citic-3 throughout the United States when the majority of class honors are won by girl students. Girls are more ambitious in the matter j of attaining marks than boys are, but that is only a part of it. There j are more extracurricular activities in which the boys are interested ; boys i are more apt to be working liurii th'-ir high-school years than girls are, and there are also more girls than boys in the classes finishing. We are not to think that boys are not as good students in most cases as girls are; there ai just more contributory circumstances to the girls excelling ia marki |