that the greater number of graduating pupils who have 2, 3, 4, 5, and
6 failures in a semester are found after the end of the second year.


4. DISTRIBUTION OF THE FAILURES IN REFERENCE TO THE SUBJECTS IN WHICH
THEY OCCUR

The following tabulation of failures will show how they were shared by
both boys and girls in each of the school subjects which provided the
failures here listed.


NUMBER OF FAILURES DISTRIBUTED BY SCHOOL SUBJECTS

Total Math. Eng. Latin Ger. Fr. Hist. Sci. Bus. Span. or
Subj's. Greek

B. 8348 2015 1555 1523 917 473 571 850 424 20
G. 9612 2300 1424 1833 812 588 1036 1013 593 13
Per Cent
of Total 24.1 16.5 18.7 9.6 5.9 8.9 10.3 5.6 .2


The abbreviated headings above will be self-explanatory by reference to
section 3 of Chapter I. The first line of numbers gives the failures
for the boys, the second line for the girls. Mathematics has 24.1 per
cent of all the failures for all the pupils. Latin claims 18.7 per cent
and English 16.5 per cent of all the failures. These three subjects
make a total of nearly 60 per cent of the failures for the nine subject
groups appearing here. But still this is only a partial statement of