Education: Self-Examination

For Boys. President Henry Louis Smith of Washington and Lee University was puzzled and depressed. He was contemplating the fact that, out of every 100 U. S. youngsters who start off in kindergarten, only four or five take high school diplomas; and the further fact that of these young hopefuls, theoretically a hand-picked lot, anywhere from 10 to 25 in 100 make a dismal botch of their freshman year at college.

"This is an age of gasoline and jazz, of the movie and the radio, of the new woman and her liberty. ....

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