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one hundred grades. Fig. 8 gives the distribution of highest grades 

 and of lowest grades, the honors and the failures, for various depart- 

 ments at the University of California in December, 1906. It is un- 

 necessary to present statistics for other years or for other institutions. 

 From Maine to California the administration of college credits, though 



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alike in no other particular, agrees in this — that its basis is personal 



rather than scientific. 2 We do not know what the symbols mean : they 



a W. F. Dearborn, in Bulletin 368 of the University of Wisconsin, presents 

 numerous unscientific distributions of grades in Wisconsin. 



