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6. When, in a college course given annually, 

 the number of students is less than 6, should 

 not the course be offered only once in two 

 years, except for reasons of weight? 



The Actual Curricula of Individual Students 

 The committee gathered 500 complete rec- 

 ords of the courses taken for the bachelor's 

 degree by students representing random 

 samplings of the class of 1909 in the following 

 institutions: Beloit (27), Bowdoin (36), Co- 

 lumbia, (21), Cornell (42), Harvard (50), 

 Knox (13), Lake Forest (10), Marietta (10), 

 Princeton (49), Eipon (10), Stanford (20), 

 Wabash (22), Wellesley (22), Wesleyan (38), 

 Williams (40), Tale (95). These were 

 worked over by the chairman into complete 



of the work done for the A.B. degree 

 hy indwidual students 



tables like Table II. below, the first line of 

 which reads, " Individual A did 18 per cent, 

 of the total work required for the degree, in 

 courses in ancient languages; 18 per cent, of 

 it in courses in modern foreign languages; 

 13 per cent, of it in English; 5 per cent, of it 

 in philosophy, 32 per cent, of it in history, 

 economics, etc." These complete tables are 

 too long to be printed, but they can not be 

 summarized in lower terms. I give in Tables 

 III. and IV. samples of the answers which 

 may be got from them, using two arbitrary 

 questions about the extent of specialization 

 and superficiality. 



•Also 12 architecture and 3 engineering. 



"Also 6 education. 



"Also 9 mining and 9 engineering. 



(a) If the combination of the hist. ec. gov. 

 group with law is counted as one group, and if 

 the combination of science and medicine is counted 

 as one group, we have added 11 cases (8 at Stan- 

 ford, 3 at Cornell) of the former sort and 5 cases 

 (at Cornell) of the latter sort of specialization. 



(5) One case for music and art. 



Of these cases of apparent scattering 34 are 

 individuals each giving over three tenths of the 

 total degree-requirement to history, economics, 

 etc., and many of the others represent conceivably 



