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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



The reports were first classified into 39 sets, each set representing 

 a single class within a single college, the electrical engineering being 

 considered separately from the mechanical engineering students, and 

 the sexes being treated separately within the College of Arts and 

 Sciences. A miscellaneous group was introduced to comprehend the 

 few graduate and special students who represented activities too hetero- 

 geneous to form a typical set. 



In this series of tables there was indicated the average and the 

 highest and the lowest weekly record of each class in each college. 

 Only a single specimen (Table 1) is here printed — that of the civil 

 engineering freshmen. The figures in parenthesis after ' meals ' de- 

 note the number of students who gave six hours or less, i. e., an hour 

 a day or less, to their meals, while similar figures after ' support ' 

 denote the number of students therein represented. 



( University work ' is the sum of the first four items. 



Table 1. 

 Specimen of the first series. C. B. Freshmen. 43 cases. 



Topic. 



Lectures , 



Laboratories 



Shop and field 



Outside study 



(University work) 



Amusement , 



Physical exercise., 



Meals 



Sleep 



Unclassified 



Support 



Average. 



11.55 



8.28 



4.96 



26.27 



(51.06) 



12.55 



11.93 



(12) 8.55 



48.11 



6.71 



(12) 5.09 



High. 



23.00 

 26.00 

 22.00 

 44.50 



29.00 

 25.00 

 16.25 

 57.50 

 21.50 

 35.00 



Low. 



7.00 



2.50 



0.00 



10.00 



0.00 

 3.50 

 2.92 

 34.00 

 0.00 

 0.00 



The chief interest of the investigation attaches, however, to the sec- 

 ond series of tables, which are derived from the first series by division by 

 six (to reduce to a single day basis) and by combination in various 

 ways. We thus are able to secure (1) a comparison of classes, (2) a 

 comparison of courses, (3) a comparison of the sexes, and, finally, (4) 

 the daily time of that hypothetical being, the average Cornell student.* 

 Save in the last, the extremes of variation have been omitted in these 

 derived tables. 



The division into ' courses ' corresponds, naturally, to the division 

 of the university into colleges, viz., arts and sciences, law, medicine, 

 veterinary medicine, agriculture, architecture, civil engineering and 

 mechanical engineering. 



The College of Medicine in Ithaca has two classes (1st and 2d year) ; 

 the Colleges of Law and Veterinary Medicine have each three classes, 

 which are here treated as first year, junior and senior; all the other 

 colleges have four years. 



* Hypothetical because, of course, the time would never correspond in 

 actuality with that of any single student. 



