Education: University Pruning

In Columbus, Ohio one day last week 236 people lost their jobs. Compared with the nation's or even Columbus' unemployed, their number was paltry. What made them newsworthy was the fact that they had all been employes of Ohio State University.

During the prosperous 1920's the Town felt a little sorry for the Gown. The professor had security, of course, but so had everyone else and no professor was considered overpaid. As the decade closed and the Town, its income reduced, had to go on supporting State universities by paying taxes, sympathy...

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