DORMITORIES IMPROVED GRADES

Statistics of the University office show that the class of 1918, the first Freshman class to occupy the new dormitories, attained a higher standard of grades than the class of 1917. The present Junior class was the last Freshman class separated among the different dormitories and rooming houses of Cambridge. From the statistics of the scholastic standing of the Sophomore class it seems that the new dormitories not only brought the members of the class into closer relationship with each other in social affairs, athletics, and class into closer relationship with each other in social affairs, athletics, and class activities, but they helped also to increase efficiency in college studies.

In the Freshman class of 1917 which entered the University in 1913, there was an enrolment of 619. Of the total number of grades received by these students, 33 1-3 per cent. were marks of distinction, A or B; 43 per cent. of the number of grades were C, 19.2 per cent. D, and 4.1 E, or absolute failure.

The record of the class of 1918, on the other hand, was much better. The enrolment of this class, which entered the University in 1914, was 705. Of the total number of grades received by this class, 37.1 per cent. were marks of distinction, A or B; 43 per cent. C, 15 1-2 per cent. D, and 3.7 per cent, absolute failure.

The following table shows the difference in each group for the two classes:   1917  1918  Increase Total enrolment,  619  705  86 Per cent. A and B,  33.5  37.1  3.6 Per cent. C,  43  43 Per cent. A, B, and C,  76.5  80.7  4.2 Per cent. D,  19.2  15.5  3.7 Per cent. E,  4.1  3.7  *0.4 *Decrease.