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t Contains 2 cases "graded below 70" where no mathematics and no science either was 

 taken during college course. 



the idea that in mathematics mere conscientiousness, memory and female 

 verbal prowess are of less avail than in other courses, and that therefore 

 good work in mathematics more closely measures pure intellect. A recent 

 article in School and Society gives figures confirming this. 10 It will be noted 

 concerning the invariable height, fall, and rise again of births related to 

 increasing grades that this curve both gets started and culminates at lower 

 points in the mathematical than in the general tables. This corresponds 

 to one's feeling that a girl who painstakingly acquires 80-some in most 

 courses gets 70-some in mathematics. 



One is encouraged to think that these conscientious collectors of fair 

 grades might be influenced by proper exhortation to collect a less discredit- 

 able number of children than they now do. 



Finally, there is no getting away from the fact that those happy souls 

 who get a general average as low as the college will graduate them on, have 

 a high birth rate per capita, as have also all those of whatever ranking (table 

 3E) who slide through college without any mathematics at all and with 

 usually a minimum even of science. 



One question remains about these much-married happy creatures and 

 I cannot as yet answer it. Did they get quality as well as quantity of 

 husbands? Or were they more willing to take an inferior article? If they 



10 M. E. Haggerty, "Crux of the Teaching Prognosis Problem," School and Society 

 Vol. 35, no. 904, April 23, 1932. 



