TABLE 27.-Number and per cent of land-grant institutions reporting allocation of administrative duties 1927-28-Continued TABLE 28.-Calendar of instruction, including registration period, closing date, recess periods, number of days of instruction, and number of days and terms of the summer session Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. TABLE 28.-Calendar of instruction, including registration period, closing date, recess periods, number of days of instruction, and number of days and terms of the summer session-Continued Part V.-Alumni and Former Students Thirty-seven thousand three hundred and forty-two alumni and other former students of the land-grant institutions contributed to this study by making reports upon a questionnaire form prepared for the purpose. These former students matriculated in 48 institutions during four periods, each of three academic years, 1889-1892, 1899-1902, 1909–1912, and 1919-1922. Matriculation records for these periods were furnished by the institutions participating in the study with two exceptions, Ohio State University and Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. The total number of matriculants reported was 103,712. Distribution by years, number of institutions, and of those to whom the questionnaire was sent is shown in Table 1. TABLE 1.-Distribution of matriculants Of the 76,785 questionnaires sent to matriculants, 7,344 could not be delivered by the Postal Service, thus leaving 69,441 that presumably reached the persons to whom they were addressed. Reports were received from 33,723, or 48.5 per cent, of the matriculants who probably received the questionnaire. In addition 3,619 reports were received from former students of Ohio State University and Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, making a total of 37,342 cases for study. Inasmuch as it has been possible to present only a small part of the information secured by means of the questionnaire, students who desire to carry the study further upon the basis of the original data may be interested to know that the questionnaires on file in the United States Office of Education contain information on the following items: State or county from which registered, year of matriculation, degree received, number of years in college if not a graduate, major division of registration, field of specialization, present residence, age at entrance to college, sex, marital status, number of children in school or graduated, nativity of father and mother, size of community in which reared, graduate and extension work, degree to which self-supporting in college, and method of securing such support, fellowships and scholarships, fraternity membership, student extracurricular activities, time and reason for choice of field of work, present occupation, ownership in business, how capital secured, annual earnings by years since leaving college, successive positions occupied, activities outside of occupation, reasons for leaving college if a nongraduate. Distribution of the former students to whom the questionnaire was sent by major divisions of registration and by graduates and nongraduates in the major division of first registration is shown by Table 2. TABLE 2.-Distribution of matriculants to whom questionnaire was sent 1889-1892 1899-1902 1909-1912 1919-1922 Division uates uates uates Grad- Nongrad- Grad- Nongrad- Grad- Nongrad- Grad- Nongrad- uates uates uates This report selected for special study the former students who specialized in five major fields-agriculture, engineering, home economics, arts and sciences, and education. Table 3 shows the number of cases reported in each of these fields. TABLE 3.-Reports available for study in five major fields 1 Includes those registered in major divisions of home economics, arts and sciences, and agriculture who specialized in home economics. |