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advanced courses are grouped by themselves. Some men believe that 

 the credits in an advanced course, which to some extent represents the 

 survival of the fittest students in the department, should be differently- 

 distributed from the credits in an elementary course in the same sub- 

 ject. College records everywhere show that a larger proportion of the 



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high rank men than of the low rank men, in an introductory course, 

 continue the subject in advanced courses. Indeed, one of the chief 

 objects of the elective system is to enable students to specialize in fields 

 in which they are likely to achieve distinction. But this hardly justi- 

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isfactory way for the diverse practises among advanced courses. Figs. 

 3 and 4 show a variation of two per cent, to sixty "per cent, in the As 

 given in intermediate courses in Harvard College; and extremes of 

 seventeen per cent, and seventy-four per cent, in the case of grade B, 

 Fig. 4 pictures the statistics of grades C, D and E. 



