Education: Put Up--or Shut Up

It was a familiar enough warning, but seldom had it been sounded with greater urgency. The cost of accommodating the college population of the future will be so high, said President Lee A. DuBridge of Caltech last week, that the American people will either have to put up more money−or shut up about sending their kids to college.

By 1972, said DuBridge, the number of youngsters old enough to enter college will be up 75% to 4,000,000. "The fraction of these youngsters who wish to enter college is also rising, so that enrollments in the nation as a whole will surely be...

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