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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



THE PROGKESS OF SCIENCE 



COLLEGE STUDIES AND PROFES- 

 SIONAL TRAINING 

 .In The Educational Review for Oc- 

 tober, President Lowell, of Harvard 

 University, gives some interesting sta- 

 tistics in regard to studies pursued in 

 college and success in the work of the 

 professional school. In a general way 

 he finds that students who enter Har- 

 vard College without conditions do well 

 in their college studies and that stu- 

 dents who do well in college also do 

 well in the schools of law and medicine, 

 whereas their standing in the profes- 

 sional schools is not dependent on the 

 kinds of studies pursued in college. 



The diagram shows the average elec- 

 tion of college courses by graduates of 

 the law and medical schools, the broken 

 lines representing the men who gradu- 

 ated from the professional schools with 

 honors and the plain lines those who 

 did not. It is apparent that the future 

 law students took more work in history, 

 government and economics, and the 

 future medical students more work in 

 the natural sciences. But the law stu- 

 dents who in college elected more work 

 than the average in history and polit- 

 ical science did not do better than the 

 others, and the medical students who 

 elected more work than the average in 



Average Election of College Courses by Graduates of The 

 LAW SCHOOL. 1891-1910 



HONOR MEN =- 

 PLAIN MEN = - 



Average Election of College Courses by Graduates of The honor men 



MEDICAL SCHOOL. 1895-1910 



PLAIN MEN ; 



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