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Show LESSER BREEDS. The Independent gives the results of an interesting investigation as to the mental capacity of the various races in Hawaii. Those who are accustomed to speak of the " lessor breeds" we hold in awe will be surprised to learn that the children of Asiatic parentage far excelled the white children in public schoul tests. The Independent says i that very likely the white children did ! not try as hard as the others, but it ! points out that a big part of genius and success depends on the capacity ; to take pains. j The investigation consisted in looking !up the' graduates for five years of the three largest Honolulu high schools and three grammar schools, SO 4 students in all. Of this number 251 were of American Amer-ican or northern Europe parentage, 191 Chinese, 131 Japanese, 112 mixed white land Hawaiian, 77 Portuguese, 2S Hawaiian, Ha-waiian, 22 Chinese-Hawaiians and 10 Koreans. Of the Japanese graduates, 30.1 per cent obtained the grade of "A," or 90 on a scale of 100; of the Koreans, 30 per cent; of the Chinese, 26.7 per cent; of the Chinese-Hawaiians, 15. 2 per cent; of the white Hawaiian?, Hi per cent; of the American and northern north-ern Europe, 13.2 per cent; of the Portuguese, Por-tuguese, 11.7 per cent, and of the pure Hawaiian, 10.7 per cent. |