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In the case of men from Holland and Scotland no individual examinations at all were found 

 necessary, and the percentage of these examinations among the English-speaking and the Scan- 

 dinavian units was very small. The greatest number of individual examinations were given 

 to Italians, although approximately the same proportion was necessary vMth the Russians and 

 the Poles. 



In comparison with the white draft as a whole the foreign-born men required beta and 

 individual examinations more than twice as frequently as the whole Army group. The high 

 proportion is at least partially explained, of course, by the large foreign-speaking element among 

 the foreign born. 



The letter grades obtained by the foreign-born men are distributed by number in table 215 

 and by percentage in table 216. In table 217 are shown the rank order of the countries accord- 

 ing to the percentage of final ratings better than D and also according to the percentage of A 

 and B ratings combined. Figure 19 shows the percentage of letter ratings in each country with 

 the countries arranged in the rank order of the percentage of final ratings above D. 



Table 216. — Percentage distribution of letter grades made by foreign-born men. 



Letter grade. 



A 



B 



C+ 



C 



c- 



D 



D-, E. 



Number cases . 



Nativity. 



1.7 

 1.7 

 6.7 

 32.3 

 20.0 

 27.5 

 10.0 



loT 



0.8 

 11.6 

 39.2 

 24.0 

 18.6 



5.4 



129 



3.3 

 7.2 

 15.4 

 25.8 

 28.4 

 15.4 

 4.1 



972 



0.6 

 4.8 

 16.2 

 32.4 

 33.0 

 12.8 

 .6 



325 



5.6 

 14.1 

 24.0 

 12.4 

 35.4 

 6.0 

 2.7 



411 



3.3 

 5.0 

 17.6 

 31.8 

 27.8 

 11.7 

 3.3 



2;« 



2.1 



2.1 



36.7 



15.7 



35.1 



8.5 



572 



5.0 



5.7 



21.4 



25.0 



33.7 



8.5 



.7 



140 



1.2 



2.9 

 8.4 

 29.0 

 IS. 6 

 26.2 

 13.2 



0.2 

 .6 



2.3 

 24.4 



9.1 

 40.0 

 23.4 



658 4,007 



0.6 

 3.5 

 8.9 

 36.0 

 25.9 

 21.8 

 3.8 



611 



0.5 

 3.1 

 19.5 

 7.3 

 43.5 

 26.4 



0.4 

 2.3 

 4.8 

 22.1 

 10.5 

 40.0 

 20.4 



382 2,340 



4.8 

 8.2 

 25.4 

 19.2 

 28.8 

 10.9 

 2.7 



146 



1.3 

 3.0 

 12.6 

 37.0 

 26.8 

 17.1 

 2.3 



691 



0.4 

 3.0 

 5.7 

 34.4 

 14.7 

 30.4 

 11.6 



1.1 

 2.9 

 7.3 

 26.6 

 16.5 

 30.8 

 14.8 



423 12,407 94,004 



4.1 



8.0 

 15.2 

 23.8 

 25.0 

 17.0 



7.1 



Table 217. — Rank order of countries according to percentage of final letter grades better than D and also according to the 



percentage of A and B letter grades combined. 



Rank order. 



England 



Holland 



Denmark 



Scotland 



Germany 



Sweden 



Canada 



Belgium 



White dralt 



Norway 



Austria 



Ireland 



Turkey 



Greece 



All foreign countries 



Russia 



Italy 



Poland 



Per 



cent 



D,D-,E, 



8.7 

 9.2 

 13.4 

 13.6 

 15.0 

 19.4 

 19.5 

 24.0 

 24.1 

 25.6 

 37.5 

 39.4 

 42.0 

 43.6 

 45.6 

 60.4 

 63.4 

 69.9 



Rank order. 



England 



Scotland 



White draft 



Holland 



Canada 



Germany 



Denmark 



Sweden 



Norway 



Ireland 



All foreign countries 



Turkey 



Austria 



Russia 



Greece 



Italy 



Belgium 



Poland 



Per 

 cent 

 A. B. 



19.7 

 13.0 

 12.1 

 10.7 

 10.5 

 8.3 

 5.4 

 4.3 

 4.1 

 4.1 

 4.0 

 3.4 

 3.4 

 2.7 

 2.1 



