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In comparing the classes, the women are included with the men, 

 though their number is specified; in comparing the courses, they are 

 separated from the men in the arts and sciences group only. 



The percentage of enrolled students actually represented is indi- 

 cated in every instance. It ranges from 19 per cent, to 43 per cent. 



Comparison of the Classes. — As will be seen from Table 2 it is 

 difficult, if not impracticable, to assert any general differences in the 

 distribution of the daily time of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and 

 seniors. The only generalization that is suggested is that freshmen 

 and seniors give less time to university work than do sophomores and 

 juniors. This statement is borne out by the table, and by inspection 

 of the tables of the first series it may be discovered that the least work 

 is done by freshmen or seniors in eight of nine courses; conversely, 

 most work is done by sophomores or juniors in six of nine courses. 

 The shorter time of freshmen is evidently due to the fact that pre- 

 scribed work in certain professional courses calls for less laboratory 

 and field work in the first, than in succeeding years. Thus the courses 

 in which the hours of the freshmen class are shortest are law, veterinary 

 medicine, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. 



Table 2. 

 Totals by classes, all courses.* Average Day. 



Comparison of the Courses. — As shown in Table 3, the several 

 colleges of the university may be arranged in the following order in 

 terms of the average number of hours given in university work: medi- 

 cine, veterinary medicine, mechanical and civil engineering, architect- 

 ure, law, agriculture, arts.f 



* Includes all but 16 specials in agriculture (14 men and 2 women). 



t The special group is excluded in this discussion, being too heterogeneous 

 to be classed as a graduate group. Its place would be between architecture and 

 law. 



Electrical and mechanical engineering, if computed separately, are found 



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