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The one or two hours time gained by the arts student over his mate 

 in the other courses is expended largely, as might be expected, in 

 amusement, physical exercises and unclassified pursuits, as the hours 

 for meals and sleep are fairly constant, though law and arts do exceed 

 other courses slightly even in this respect. It is perhaps not without 

 significance that students in the two medical colleges have the least 

 amount of time that can not be classified, whereas, of all the courses, 

 arts and law give the longest time to amusement, the longest time to 

 physical exercise, the longest time to sleep, and arts the longest time 

 to miscellaneous activities. 



On the other hand, the average student in agriculture, who has a 

 relatively short period of university work — less, in fact, than law — 

 devotes the time thus gained very largely to work for self-support, 

 giving from 0.68 to 1.18 hours more time daily to this sort of work 

 than the students of other courses. 



Comparison of the Sexes. — Of special interest is the comparison 

 of the daily time of the sexes in a coeducational institution. 



In examining Table 4 we must remember that a large majority of 

 the women (69/86) and but relatively few of the men (178/809) are 

 arts students. Hence it is not surprising that the men exceed in the 



Table 4. 

 Totals by sexes, all students. Average Day. 



Number. 

 Per Cent. Represented. 



Lectures 



Laboratori es 



Shop and field 



Outside study 



(University work) 



Amusement 



Physical exercise.. 



Meals 



Sleep 



Unclassified 



Support 



time spent in laboratory, shop and field work, the excess here more 

 than counteracting the slightly greater time spent by women in lectures 

 and ' outside study,'* so that the average man spends an hour a day 

 more at university work than the average woman. 



Now, to make the comparison entirely fair, let us contrast the men 

 in arts with the women in arts (where they are mainly to be found). 

 We discover, however (Table 3), that the conditions are practically 

 the same even here, though the differences are less exaggerated. Men 



* But if we assume, as seems highly probable, that more men than women 

 study on Sunday, we may suppose that the total time per week given to out- 

 side study is as great, if not greater, for men than for women. 



