THE RACE TO COLLEGE In Manhattan last week a purposeful child was asked where he is going to school next year. At once he replied:
"Boarding school and Harvard.'' The boy is four years old, and already papa has him concerned about college. At 17 he may well become what one educator calls the U.S. high school senior—"A bundle of nerves in a rat race." Never before have so many Americans coveted the 700-year-old Artium Bacca-laureus—and never before has the competition been stiffer.
By all the evidence, Americans will soon consider at least...
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