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matter from another direction. An attempt 

 has been made to answer the question of the 

 relative success of college and non-college men 

 in the attainment of fame. 



The statistical table in Who's Who in Amer- 

 ica,^ revised slightly to allow for those who 

 have not sent in educational statistics, shows 

 that 8,985 persons out of the total of 17,546 

 listed have graduated from colleges giving bac- 

 calaureate degrees.2 This means that 517^ of 

 the noted persons are college graduates, while 

 many more have attended college. It is not 

 stated whether the term college graduate im- 

 plies a baccalaureate degree, or whether grad- 

 uates of other courses not leading to such a 

 degree are included. Random sampling of a 

 considerable number of cases shows, however, 

 that college graduate substantially always 

 mean^ the holding of the A.B. or equivalent 

 degree, with very often a higher degree also. 

 It might be thought that the liberal college 

 course was mainly confined to the traditional 

 learned professions, but this is not entirely the 

 case, as the following table shows: 



^ Pages xix-xxii of the introduction (1912). 

 2 Includes a relatively small number of graduates of 

 the United States military and naval academies. 



