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rough work, and yet when the same test is ap- 

 plied to each institution for two successive 

 years the results can not be far wrong. Table 

 Vin. gives these results in simple form for 

 those institutions which replied to the ques- 



TABLE vin 

 Educational Institutions according to Groups 



tionnaire, arranged according to their attitude 

 to the first question, and the institutions not 

 heard from in a column by themselves. The 

 institutions with no incomes listed in these 

 two reports are of course not entered. This 

 accounts for the discrepancy between the total 

 461 and the 493 to which postals were sent. 

 These income groups, too, I worked out espe- 

 cially in connection with the colleges and 

 universities upon private foundations, since it 

 is with these that the problem seems to be 

 most acute. 



From this table it is evident that a majority 

 of the state universities and of the colleges 

 and universities on private foundations with 

 an annual income of $100,000 or more, foUow 

 the practise of requiring the seniors to take 



' ' ' Scattering ' ' means that the postals did not 

 indicate clearly whether the examinations for 

 seniors occurred earlier or not. 



their iinal examinations at the same time as 

 the rest of the students. Still further, of all 

 the state universities, only four have an in- 

 come apparently under $100,000 a year. One 

 of these belongs among those with senior ex- 

 aminations at the same time as for other stu- 

 dents, two among those favoring an earlier 

 date, and one among those not heard from. 

 Combining these results, we get 48 institu- 

 tions with an annual income of $100,000 or 

 more favoring examinations for all students 

 at the same time, and 25 favoring an earlier 

 date for senior finals. The practise of these 

 institutions seems to be decidedly in favor of 

 the former. It is of importance, too, to not© 

 that all of the colleges and universities in the 

 country on private foundations and belonging 

 to this group were heard from except two. 



This table also shows that the practise of 

 having senior finals at an earlier date is al- 

 most equal to the other method among the col- 

 leges and universities with an annual income 

 of from $50,000 to $100,000, and that it 

 reaches a majority of almost two to one 

 among the institutions with an income of 

 from $25,000 to $50,000 a year, or 40 per cent, 

 of all the institutions of that class in the 

 country. In the nest lower income group, the 

 ratio shifts back into approximate conformity 

 with the highest income groups. 



The distribution of these institutions ac- 

 cording to the census divisions is rather sug- 

 gestive in places. We need consider only the 

 state universities and the groups of institu- 

 tions on private foundations, except the low- 

 est. 



TABLE rx 

 Distribution of State Universities 



' ' ' Scattering ' ' means in Tables IX. to XIU. 

 that the postals were indefinite on this point. 



