Education: Fleeting Scholars

Dr. Walter Albert Jessup, 61-year-old president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,* believes that U. S. .colleges are too big and too bad. Each year, in his report for the Foundation, he offers fresh facts to prove his point. Last year he took colleges to task for buying tuba players with scholarships (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938). Last week Dr. Jessup led off the Foundation's 33rd annual report by giving the rough side of his tongue to another growing evil: tramp scholars.

"The medieval age," said he, "had its wandering scholar. We...

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