Education: First Aid to Marriage

Some of the things that matter most to U. S. citizens—religion, politics, love, marriage, birth—are pretty largely ignored by U. S. formal education. Until 15 years ago no U. S. college had anything to tell its students about marriage. Today some 200 have.

The man who started the first college course in marriage was ruddy little Ernest Rutherford Groves, 60, University of North Carolina's famed sociologist. He has been married twice (his first wife died ), has four children. To tell others how to find happiness in marriage he has written 28 books (six of them with his second wife).

Last week Dr....

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