Our boys : a study of the 245,000 sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year old employed boys of the state of New York . nty-one percent of the boys. In the villages over 5,000 populationit is liked by about forty-two percent and disliked by about twenty-one percent. In the farm boy group, however, the uniform likeincreases to about forty-nine percent and the dislike decreases toabout seventeen percent. While the like for Mathematics is almosttwenty percent greater than that for any other subject the dislike 144 Our Boys for Mathematics is only fifteen percent less than the dislike forEnglish which
Our boys : a study of the 245,000 sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year old employed boys of the state of New York . nty-one percent of the boys. In the villages over 5,000 populationit is liked by about forty-two percent and disliked by about twenty-one percent. In the farm boy group, however, the uniform likeincreases to about forty-nine percent and the dislike decreases toabout seventeen percent. While the like for Mathematics is almosttwenty percent greater than that for any other subject the dislike 144 Our Boys for Mathematics is only fifteen percent less than the dislike forEnglish which stands first on the list for dislike. Altho Mathe-matics is the best liked study it also ranks second in the list otfdisliked subjects. The remarkable uniformity in the percentage oflike and dislike for the subject of Mathematics in all the grades in allcommunities of the State, indicates that the course of study in Mathe-matics is uniformly interesting to from forty-three to forty-eightpercent of the boys and uniformly uninteresting to from sixteen totwenty percent of the boys. Our Boys 145 miEaiAiics o>i. 0% 10^ 20^ 30% 40> 60^ Greater Haw York^ployed f&rm boysFlaces nndsr 5,000Cities over 25,0007111ae6B over 5,000Cities under 25,000 Greater Hew YorlcCities tinder 25,000Places under 5,000Villages over 5,000Cities over 25,000i^loyed farm boys Greater Hew YorkPlaces under 5,000Cities over 26,000Cities imder 25,000Villages over 5,000anployed fann boys I Places under 5,000Greater liew YorkI Villages over 5,000I Cities over 25,000I Cities under 25,000I J:)nployed torn boys 5th GB&CB 1 Villages over 5,000 2 Cities over 25,000 3 Qnployad boys 4 Cities under 25,000 5 Flaces under 5,000 6 Greater iaew York6th GBa)£ 1 ii:5)loyed farm boys 2 Cities over 26,000 3 Cities under 25,000 4 Places under 5,000 5 Villages over 5,000 6 Greater New Yoric 7th GBU)fB fli^loyed fann boysCities under 26,000Places under 6,000Cities over 25,000Villages over 5,000Greater Hew York jinployed
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