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The College and Main Street
Wilm, E. C. | October 9, 1929 issue

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In the numerous recent attempts at college reform in the pages of the magazines a basic point has been usually overlooked, namely, that the college, represents a cross-section of the community. Therefore all hopes for any thoroughgoing reform of the college are likely to prove illusory until the society of which it is a part has itself undergone radical changes. Today the college degree has become the objective of hundreds of thousands of high-school graduates whose main qualification in the majority of cases for a career of scholarship is the ability to pass a set of rather perfunctory high-school requirements and the financial ability of their parents to stand four additional years of economic non-productivity.

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UNIVERSITIES & colleges; PERIODICALS; DEGREES, Academic; EDUCATION; SOCIAL problems; HIGH schools
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