Education: Provocative

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER—Edward D. Toland-Applcton ($1.50). It is diploma time at schools and colleges. To be or not to be a lawyer, doctor, minister, engineer, policeman, taxidermist—that is the question of the gown-wearers. College questionnaires usually reveal some 20 to 40% of near-graduates who are "undecided." Author Toland, instructor at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) and a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, rightly makes the point that, in an age of specializing, the hour for decision has struck before a boy leaves secondary school. In a few brief,...

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