Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 30: Published Monthly Except July and August, June-December, 1905In the second method of comparison the actual careers of the members of a class who enter in, say, 1900-01, are followed in the catalogs. We get thus for John Smith a record of, entered as a freshman in 1900-01, was a sophomore in 1901 02, was a Sophomore again in 1902-03, is not in the catalog of 1903-04 in any class Subject to the errors of the cata logs themselves and of searching and copying, this method gives the life-history of any freshman in the college he enters. Of course this method does not give the tendency of an in dividual to stay in college, but only in the particular college which he enters. Transfers to other colleges appear as total eliminations. The method does have the advantages of tell ing something about the particular hold a college maintains on its own entering classes, and of checking the results from the former method of comparison.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.