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Show Veterans in College Earn Above Average Grades, Deans Say Returned "G.I." college students - are maintaining scholastic grades that are as good as or better than the averages of civilian students, according ac-cording to a survey of 114 universities universi-ties and colleges by Northwestern National Life Insurance .Co. "These men are more serious as a group than are the civilian students," is typical of comments received from deans and other placement officials of-ficials covered in the survey. Veteran full-time students in U. S. colleges and universities totalled 14,-325 14,-325 for the spring term (O.W.I, figures), fig-ures), an increase of 49 per cent over the winter term total veteran registrations, the survey states. Columbia university reports 517 student - veterans on its campus for the sring term; Universities of Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Michigan Michi-gan each report approximately 400 former servicemen enrolled as full-time full-time students for the spring quarter, quar-ter, the survey finds. Other universities univer-sities and colleges reporting large current enrollments of former G.I.s are: University of Illinois, with 386 veterans; University of Ohio and Texas U., with 350 each; College of the City of New York and Michigan States, 300 each; Temple university, 275; Purdue, 261. University of Washington, 260; Boston U., 257; Cornell, Missouri and Utah, approximately approxi-mately 200 each; Stanford with 175; Marquette, 175; Alabama, 140; Louisiana Lou-isiana State with 125; Bradley Polytechnic, Poly-technic, 125; Kentucky with 115; Yale, 112; Notre. Dame, Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma A. and M. with approximately 100 veteran students each. Some 20 per cent of student-veterans are either already married or soon expect to be; the problems of housing these married students in small college towns are likely to be acute, observes the report from Colgate Col-gate university. Principal exceptions to the generally gener-ally favorable grade reports were those veterans without adequate pre-service college preparation, and certain proportion of those with long combat experience. Veterans were reported as having more difficulty in engineering and other technological courses than in academic and business busi-ness subjects. Many have heavy going go-ing for the first term or so, but bring their averages up after getting back into the habit of study, the survey finds. So far, there has been little call for refresher courses for returned alumni veterans. Most of these have gone to work immediately in war industries, the survey finds. On the basis of returns from questionnaires sent by various universities to alumni alum-ni in service, .however, heavy calls for refresher courses are expected as more alumni veterans return and employment demand from war industries slackens. |