"ENGLISH A" STATISTICS

Statistics compiled by Professor Greenough, of the department of English, from the mid-year marks of the Freshmen in "English A" speak very favorably for the new plan of admission to College, which is being tried out this year for the first time.

The work of men in "English A" who entered College under the new plan was conspicuously better than that of the other men in the course. Eight per cent, of the men who entered under the old plan did well enough in the first half-year to be exempted from further prescribed English composition, but no fewer than nineteen per cent, of the men who entered under the new plan were exempted.

Honor Grade Men.

Again, sixteen and five-tenths percent. of the men who entered under the old plan received honor grades (A or B), as against thirty per cent. of the men who entered under the new plan. Most striking of all, perhaps, is the fact that ninety-one per cent. of the men who entered under the new plan were reported at the mid-years as having done a satisfactory half-year's work in English, that is, as receiving grade C, or better; but against this ninety-one per cent. of new plan men doing satisfactory work appears the fact that only sixty-eight per cent. of the old plan men were doing satisfactory work; or, to put it another way, eight per cent. of the new plan men got grade D, as against twenty-four per cent. of the old plan men. Only one per cent. of the new plan men received grade E as against eight per cent. of the old plan men.