Note 485 — Chapter VI · GIRTON AND NEWNHAM

For the 20 years from 1886 to 1906:—

Mathematics 345 candidates, 31 wranglers

First and 2nd classes 56 per cent.

Classics 296 candidates, 54 first classes First and 2nd classes 61 per cent.

Moral Sciences 83 candidates, 21 first classes (this excludes the triumphs of the first 12 years) First and 2nd classes 76 per cent.

Natural Sciences 246 candidates, 64 first classes First and 2nd classes 70 per cent.

History 290 candidates, 49 first classes First and 2nd classes 64 per cent.

Medieval and Modern Languages (tripos created in 1886) 246 candidates, 73 first classes First and 2nd classes 74 per cent.

Hence in these 6 triposes the highest percentage of Firsts has been obtained in the Moral Sciences, Languages, and Natural Sciences, Classics coming fourth; while in the percentage of First and Second classes the order is again: Moral Sciences, Languages, Natural Sciences, followed by History, Classics, and Mathematics.

In the first 10 years 250 students took a tripos, of whom one in five (51) was placed in the first class.

Among the men the percentage of First Classes for the years 1900-1905 is: mathematics 39 per cent, classics 28 per cent. For the subjects chosen by men cf. iv. p. 238 n.