Education: Richard Kane

The Century for October contributed much food for the thought of parents and pedagogs on higher education in the U. S. It published speculations by one Irwin Edman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, upon the mentality, moods and the painful dilemma of "Richard Kane," undergraduate of today, brother of "Ferguson—Rex," whose portrait appeared last month in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, Sept. 22).

"Richard Kane" has often walked into Teacher Edman's office between April and June seeking surcease from the throes of graduation, wondering what he is to do with his...

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