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MEMOIRS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



[Vol. XV, 



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Fig. 27. Distribution of schooling. Dental and veterinary officers are less schooled than medical officers. The mode falls at third year college 

 because a three-year course is what is usually offered in their professional schools. (See tables 302 and 303. ) 



Later study of medical records has shown that the scattering cases where officers reported, 

 for instance, four, or seven, years schooling, etc., were usually actually "four years college," 

 "seven years college," etc. This lower "tail" of the distribution may therefore best be 

 disregarded as an artifact due to the method by which the data were collected. ! 



The light thrown by these tables on the extent of elimination in our public-school systems 

 will doubtless attract attention in school circles. The facts reported by white recruits may 

 be stated in this form: Of 100 white recruits who entered the first grade in this country, 95 

 remained in school till grade two, 92 till grade three, 87 till grade four, 79 till grade five, 70 

 till grade six, 59 till grade seven, and 45 till grade eight; 21 of them entered high school, 16 

 kept on till the second year, 11 till the third, and 9 of the 100 graduated from high school; 

 5 of these entered college, and 1 graduated from college. (See table 304, figure 28.) It 

 is to be remembered that this includes the foreign-born but not the negro draft, and does not 

 include officers. Figures for the native-born white draft are given in table 304, which also 

 gives previous estimates of elimination from school. It is interesting to see how closely some 

 of these have approached the figures actually reported by the draft. 



• Intellectual and Educational status of the Medical Profession as Represented in the United States Army. Bull. National Research 

 Council, No. 8, 1921. 



