handle successfully. This
pursuance of an unsuccessful method is not good procedure in the
business world. The doctor does not employ such methods.

_d. The Number and Results of Identical Repetitions_

It has become apparent before this that some pupils fail several times
and in identical subjects because of their unsuccessful repetitions
after each failure. Final success might at times justify multiplied
repetitions, but in such instances it becomes increasingly important
that the repetition should eventually end in success after the subject
has been repeated two, three or four times. If such is not the result,
then the method is at best a misdirection of energy; or still worse it
is an irreparable error, expensive to the individual and the school
alike, which only serves to accentuate the inequalities and perversions
of opportunity imposed by an arbitrary requirement of the same
subjects, the same methods, and the same scheme of education for all
pupils alike, regardless of their capacities and interests. In using
the term identical it is intended to designate just one unit of the
course, as English I, or Latin II. The following table will disclose
the facts as to the success resulting from each number of such
successive and identical repetitions per pupil.

TABLE X

THE NUMBERS AND RESULTS OF REPEATED REPETITIONS, FOR IDENTICAL SUBJECTS

NO. OF Grades No Per Cent
REPET. A B C D Grade Totals Failing
1 Boys 62 532 1727 880 216 3117
Girls 80 702 2329 1180 342 4633 32.5
2 Boys 1 15 106 77 3 202
Girls 3 17 154 89 2 265 36.6
3 Boys .. 0 26 33 0 59
Girls .. 5 19 36 3 63 59.0
4 Boys .. .. 4 11 .. 15
Girls .. .. 8 25 .. 33 75.0
5 Boys .. .. .. 2 .. 2
Girls .. .. .. 5 .. 5 100.0
6 Boys .. .. .. 0 .. 0
Girls .. .. .. 2 .. 2 100.0
Tot. Boys 63 547 1863 1003 219 3695
Girls 83 724 2510 1337 347 5001

Although a smaller number of pu