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TABLE Vn 



Distribution of Institutions that Excuse Seniors from Final Examinations 



rather definite information in connection with 

 tte practise of setting senior finals at an early 

 date. 



The list of institutions given in the " Re- 

 port of the Commissioner of Education " ' is 

 complex. If we analyze it and put the state 

 universities in a group by themselves, state 

 colleges by themselves, colleges and universi- 

 ties on private foundations by themselves, and 

 so on, and then get at the annual income of 

 each institution and make corresponding sub- 

 groups, much more information is elicited. 



It is, of course, not easy to arrange these 



' This term is used to designate those institutions 

 which schedule senior examinations at other dates 

 than just one or two weeks, as indicated on Table I. 



* The term "Various" is used to include ex- 

 cusing from examinations at the option of the 

 professor, with or without a definite percentage, 

 and a number of other ways which hardly needed 

 to be presented in detail, while the total of this 

 and 90 per cent, are the preferred satisfactory 



institutions in income groups. For this pur- 

 pose, I used the Eeport of the Commissioner 

 of Education for 1909 and for 1910." A very 

 elaborate treatment would require a study of 

 each institution through the last ten or twenty 

 years. Even then there would be difficulty in 

 determining what group an institution should 

 be placed in because of the fluctuations of in- 

 come due to growth or decay, increase or de- 

 crease in tuition, and the varying amounts 

 yielded by invested funds. The two reports 

 just referred to, however, seem to furnish sufS- 

 cient material for the purposes of this investi- 



In determining the group to which an in- 

 stitution belongs, I considered the annual in- 

 come as made up of " tuition and other fees 

 for educational services," the amount obtained 

 from " productive funds," and the amount 

 gained for " current expenses " from " city, 

 state or national government, or private bene- 

 factions." It is true that this represents only 



'Report for 1909, pp. 900-924. 



"Report for 1909, pp. 961-977. 

 1910, pp. 943-961. 



Eeport for 



