In reply to the question as to why these men had left college before graduation, for four hundred and fourteen, or 63.2 per cent no reason was given. The reasons alleged for the two hundred and forty-one, or 36.8 per cent remaining were as follows:
| Reasons | Percentage |
|---|---|
| To enter business | 49.9 |
| Lack of money | 17.4 |
| Failure in studies | 13.3 |
| Indifference to work | 9.1 |
| Dropped from course | 4.9 |
| To get married | 4.0 |
| Trouble at home | 1.3 |
As I have said before, I am not inclined to put much confidence in these last replies, excepting that the reasons alleged are usually the reasons one or another of which induce men to leave college before graduation. "To enter business" is a reason which may mean almost anything, and might with propriety be asserted of any man who following his failure to come back to college had secured a job.
A study of the table of percentages of those who graduated and of those who did not brings out a few interesting facts. The percentage of graduates is about five per cent higher than was shown by the College of Engineering, even granting that five per cent of the students of this college who did not graduate ultimately cleared up
