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3. Students in arts and law exceed those in the other colleges in 

 amusement, physical exercise and sleep. Students in agriculture ex- 

 ceed those in other colleges in the number devoting time to self-sup- 

 port, and in the amount of time thus spent. 



4. Both in the university at large and within the College of Arts 

 and Sciences, men give more time to university work than do women, 

 whose time is the lowest of any group. Furthermore, women devote 

 less time than men to amusement, physical exercise, sleep and self- 

 sitpport, but more time to meals and over an hour a day more to the 

 miscellaneous activities recorded as unclassified. 



5. Taking the university at large, the average student devotes just 

 nine hours daily to university work, which are distributed as follows: 

 lectures and recitations, 2.17; laboratories, 1.70; shop and field work, 

 0.94; outside study, 4.19. The average student sleeps 7.90 hours, de- 

 votes 2.23 hours to amusement, 1.72 to physical exercise, 1.40 to meals, 

 0.39 to self-support, and 1.36 hours to unclassified activities. Of 

 these amounts, that given to university work is less than that recom- 

 mended by President Schurman, precisely that recommended by Presi- 

 dent Eliot, and more than that recommended by Dean Burton; that 

 given to sleep closely approximates the eight hours generally cited; 

 while that given to amusement is longer, and that given to physical 

 exercise and to meals, particularly the latter, is shorter than that 

 recommended by any of the educators quoted. 



6. Some 14 per cent, of the students give some time to occupations 

 that assist them financially. 



In conclusion, the writer suggests that similar investigations, under- 

 taken with the modifications and precautions which this study has shown 

 to be advisable, would afford an interesting basis for the comparison 

 of student activities in various institutions of learning.* 



* Since tins article was prepared for publication, a similar study has been 

 reported from Harvard University, but it has not been possible to incorporate 

 a comparison of results here. According to newspaper comments, the average 

 time given to university work was much less than that found at Cornell. 



