Show veterans in college earn above average grades deans say returned GI college students are maintaining scholastic grades that are as good as or better than the averages of civilian students according to a survey of univ universities arsi 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 covered in the survey veteran full time students in U S colleges and universities to for the spring term figures an increase of 49 per cent over the winter term total veteran registrations the survey states columbia university reports student veterans on its campus for the spring term universities of pennsylvania minnesota and michigan each report approximately former servicemen enrolled as full time students for the spring quarter the survey finds other universities and colleges reporting large current enrollments of former GIs are university of illinois with veterans university of ohio and texas U with each college of the city of new york and michigan states each temple university purdue university of washington boston U cornell missouri and utah approximately each stanford with marquette alabama louisiana state with bradley polytechnic kentucky with yale notre dame tennessee georgia oklahoma A and M with approximately veteran students each some 20 per cent of student veter ans 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 university principal exceptions to the generally favorable grade reports arts were those veterans without adequate pre service college preparation and a certain proportion of those with ion long 9 combat experience veterans were reported as having more difficulty in engineering and other technological courses than in academic and business subjects many have heavy going 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 m in in service service however heavy calls for refresher courses are expected as more alumni veterans return and employment demand from war industries slackens q i eez 4 sy EVE method of artificial respire mans diaphragm moves down I 1 lowered the water runs out of his |