Education: Presidents' Words

To graduates of 1934 the following university presidents last week made the following remarks:

Yale's James Rowland Angell: As I meet American college graduates, nothing is more depressing than to remark the astonishing number who give absolutely no suggestion of intelligent acquaintance with anything whatever outside the range of business and sport. Indeed, did they not assure you that they were sons of Dear Old Siwash, you would never of your own initiative have made that inference.

Harvard's James Bryant Conant: A person deserves little praise for his talents, which are probably as...

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