Students' Grades Have Risen Over 25 Years, Says Bender

Today's undergraduate is getting higher marks, making dean's list more often, and doing a better job staying off probation than any of his predecessors in the last quarter of a century.

Figures released last Wednesday by Dean Bender show that the percentage of dean's list students is almost twice as high as the 19.6 percent average for the 1920's. Furthermore, while seven percent of jazz-age undergrads had their connections severed for academic reason, only a little over two percent flunked out last year.

The number of students who achieved Group I has risen since 1920, and the percentage of men who stay above Group V has jumped from 38.4 percent through the 20's to 53.3 percent in the best prewar year and to 62.2 percent last spring.

Harder Workers

"The world is in a soberer mod than in the Harding-Coolidge days," Dean Bender said, explaining the trend. He added that students now in College are a "more serious and hard working group than my contemporaries."

Dean Bender also pointed out that 60 percent of men now in College are preparing to go to professional school after graduation and pay more attention to their marks, and that the average age of the undergraduate has risen since the war.