This table reads similarly to Table III.  There is not the element of continuous dropping out to be considered, as in Table III, until after the sixth semester is passed, for no pupils graduate in less than three years.  The failures represented in this table number 5,823.  This same distribution will be the subject of further comment later on.  It discloses some facts that Table III tends to conceal, for instance, 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 the facts as they are, since the total enrollment by subjects is an independent matter and far from being equally divided among all the subjects concerned.  The subject enrollment may sometimes be relatively high and the percentage of failure for that subject correspondingly lower than for a subject with the same number of failures but a smaller enrollment.  This fact becomes quite apparent from the following percentages taken in comparison with the ones just preceding: 

Percentages enrolled in each subject of the sum total
of the subject enrollments for all pupils and all semesters

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

17.3 24.0 11.9 8.5 6.8 10.2 12.5 8.3 .5