What should a lad do between the ages of 18 and 22: go to work? go around the world? go to college? Said Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) in his annual report last week: "Let a father ask his boy: 'Do you want to invest four years of your life while I invest $10,000 of family money in this venture?' " Let them not assume that "a boy whose father can afford it should go to college regardless of profiting thereby.
"Not over 75% of each graduating class here, for example, can show either the intellectual fibre or the vocational urge to justify higher education. . . . Colleges are full not because youth loves learning, but because society loves college and has for the years between 18 and 22 little to offer. . . .
"When some one is brave enough to found a society for the prevention of going to college, its memberships will be snapped up by schoolmasters who know youth best and who value it most sympathetically."