Education: Who Should Go to College?

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Wrote he in the latest Harvard Alumni Bulletin: "We are fast establishing an A.B. and Ph.D. proletariat. The German parallel of frustrated educated men immediately comes to mind. . . . An examination of occupational distribution does not suggest that there are jobs which will support college graduates in employment to their liking. In 1940, professional and semiprofessional workers accounted for only 7% of all jobs. . . ."

* Some other members: Chancellor Arthur H. Compton of Washington University, President Milton Eisenhower of Kansas State College, President Ordway Tead of New York City's Board of Higher Education, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Historian Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond (Va.) News Leader.

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