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HIGH-RANKING STUDENTS MORE PROLIFIC THAN LOW-RANKERS

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According to an experiment carried on at Brown University, men who stand high in college studies have more children than those of low standing. But even so, college men are a dying race from the point of view of having enough children to reproduce their kind.

In the group studied at Providence, including all grades of scholarship, it was found that less than 40 per cent can be expected to be fully represented in the next generation.

The report, made by Raymond R. Willoughbly, seeks to discover whether there is a "differential" in fertility of high-ranking and low-ranking college men.

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