Education: 16-to-24

In 1925 the cry for buoyant U. S. Youth was "Let's the go!" In 1930 it was a cynical "Oh, yeah?" By 1935 it had degenerated to a hopeless "So what?"

Thus Sociologist Eduard Christian Lindeman charts in current Survey Graphic the psychological nose dive taken in the past decade by the nation's youngsters. In support of this unsanguine appraisal, the Rockefeller-endowed American Youth Commission last week released results of a survey of 5,000,000 U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 24.

Physically, the Commission found the present generation of U. S....

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