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assistant professors, and most of them con- 

 nected with the College of Arts and Science. 

 The result of this investigation is that the 

 experiment started by the faculty five years 

 ago must be pronounced a complete failure. 

 And both students and faculty have before 

 now felt it to be a failure. There is no uni- 

 formity of grading, but the greatest diver- 

 gence. It has come to be admitted openly that 

 a student who is anxious to win honors must 

 be careful to elect his work under certain 

 teachers and avoid others as much as possible. 

 In order to compare the grading of the dif- 

 ferent teachers, I have divided the total num- 

 ber of the students of each teacher during the 

 last five years into three groups, one repre- 



senting the 50 per cent, medium students, 

 one the 25 per cent, superior students and 

 one the 25 per cent, inferior students. Classes 

 of less than four students were not taken into 

 account at all, because they would have unduly 

 increased the coefficient of variability without 

 signifying anything corresponding thereto. 

 The percentages of grading, on the other hand, 

 are not perceptibly changed by this omission. 

 A few of the forty teachers are no longer con- 

 nected with the university. The two classes 

 of failures have been combined into one, 

 marked F, because a number of the teachers 

 do not make any use of the grade D, not 

 wishing to express the privilege of reexamina- 

 tion in the grade, since the student's rank is 



Philosophy 



Latin I 



Sociology 



Mathematics I 



Economics 



Greek 



Latin II 



French 



Political Science 



Mathematics II 



German I 



Psychology I 



German II 



Elocution 



Geology 



History I 



Zoology I 



Psychology II 



History of Art 



Bacteriology 



Freehand Drawing... 



Chemistry I 



English I 



Astronomy 



History II 



Zoology II... 



German III 



Chemistry II 



Education 



Mathematics III 



Mathematics IV 



Physiology 



Anatomy 



Mathematics V 



Engineering I 



Meclianical Drawing. 



Mechanics 



Engineering II 



English II 



Chemistry III 



25 Per Cent. 

 Superior 

 Students 



25 Per Cent. 

 Inferior 

 Students 



623 

 130 

 958 

 208 

 461 

 287 

 577 

 295 

 592 

 145 

 586 

 907 

 941 

 917 

 293 

 779 

 479 

 238 

 685 

 263 

 506 

 205 

 964 

 225 

 806 

 250 

 441 

 21 

 266 

 182 

 380 

 426 

 544 

 209 

 813 

 558 

 495 

 826 

 1098 

 1903 



Coefficients of 

 Variability 



A S C F 



1.4 

 1.0 

 1.0 



.7 

 .4 

 .7 



1.1 

 .8 

 .4 



1.0 

 .9 

 .4 

 .9 

 .4 

 .3 



