Education: Who's Whence

Farsighted young men about to enter college and with an eye to getting along in the world might have scanned with interest last week some statistics in the current School & Society on the distribution of university alumni in Who's Who, 1928-29. To begin with they would have found that more than 50% of the 28,805 biographies included in Who's Who state that the individuals received bachelor degrees from some U. S. college. Harvard would have looked attractive to young men on the make, for it leads the list numerically with 1,374...

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