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list was determined and then, by a complete tabulation of all the names 

 in 'Who's Who,' the number from each college who found mention 

 there, ascertained, i. e., the number of the rank and file high-grade 

 and low who were high grade in the ultimate evaluation. These num- 

 bers are not given upon the table, but the percentage of such for each 

 college is in column e. In the two columns, d and e, we have the basis 

 of what seems to me an important comparison, the first representing the 

 percentages of high-grade college men who were successful in life 

 according to our criterion, and the second the percentage of good, bad 

 and indifferent college men who achieved success in terms of the same 

 criterion. The averages at the bottom of these columns are very ex- 

 pressive: 5.9 per cent, for the former to 2.1 per cent, for the latter. If 

 we are to accept these figures, our conclusion must be that the Phi Beta 

 Kappa man 's chances of success are nearly three times those of Ms class- 

 mates as a whole; that the upper stratum of college life is the upper 

 stratum still when put to the test and, to borrow further from the 

 nomenclature of the geologist, the cataclysm of graduation does not 

 produce a subversion of strata. An examination of the table shows that 

 for only five of the colleges studied was the percentage of success for 



