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all schedules were carefully reviewed by the chairman of the local committee or by the president of the institution. himself prior to return to the office. Several institutions employed upon their staffs especially for the purpose persons to supervise the preparation of questionnaire returns. The visits of the field staff made available a large body of information and impression which could not be secured adequately upon the basis of the questionnaire study alone. The employment of members of the advisory committees or of the specialists who made the initial preparation of the questionnaires to draft the tentative reports in specific fields insured to a considerable degree the incorporation of this information and impression in the survey report.

The following table shows the titles of the questionnaires used and the institutions that made returns in each case. Attention is called to the fact that owing to a disastrous hurricane in Porto Rico this institution was not requested to make returns on any of the questionnaires.

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TABLE 1.-Answers to questionnaires returned to office of education in land-grant college survey

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TABLE 2.-Answers to questionnaires sent to negro land-grant colleges

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Special mention should be made of two questionnaires-the questionnaires to be filled in by graduates and ex-students and the individual staff inquiry. A questionnaire was prepared to be filled in by the graduates and ex-students of the land-grant institutions who matriculated in 12 selected years, arranged in four groups of three years each. A record for each matriculant in these years was prepared by the institutions themselves. In addition, a questionnaire for filling in by the individual student was sent out by each institution for direct return to the Office of Education. Thirty-seven thousand three hundred and forty-two graduates and ex-students cooperated by filling in the questionnaire. A special questionnaire to be filled out by each member of the staff was also sent to the institution. The chairman of the local committee or other designated authority was asked to collect and check the returns from the staff members of the institution to insure a reasonable degree of accuracy of reply. Twelve thousand and thirty-two individual records of staff members of the land-grant colleges were thus secured.

Approximately 500,000 pages of questionnaire returns were collected during the course of the survey. Of this number, 400,000 were furnished by the graduate and ex-student questionnaires and the individual staff inquiry returns; these questionnaires were handled by means of tabulating machinery. The task of maintaining control of this vast body of information in systematic form as to make it easily available in any relationships desired, was solved in the following manner. Large tabulation sheets for each questionnaire were prepared. These sheets brought together a record for all institutions of every fact, opinion, and practice upon which information was furnished in so far as the information was such as could be tabulated. The information upon approximately 80,000 pages of questionnaire was thus reduced to approximately 3,000 tabulation sheets and all points covered classified according to the questionnaire fields. When questionnaires called for comment or considerable writing upon any point, the pages for each such point were extracted and assembled. In order to provide a further and ready means of locating material upon any specific point, a detailed index of the entire group of questionnaires was prepared.

As the questionnaires were received the returns were transferred from the questionnaire returns to the tabulation sheets. This work of transfer was carried on by specialists in the Office of Education and by specialists employed for the purpose. It was not assigned to clerks. The purpose of using high-grade assistants for the more or less mechanical operations involved was in order that discrepancies might be discovered and a degree of editing of returns might be carried on at the same time that the recording of the returns was

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