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...secure a position in the higher walks of life. The openings in the professions and the opportunities in business and vocational life are very small as compared to those in the United States. The sons and daughters of the ordinary people who go to the lycee and gymnasium cannot afford to waste time in their student years. The morality is great and graduation from those institutions is the sole entrance into the professions, the higher civil service and the higher positions in vocational life generally. This is not the situation in the United States. It is a young and growing...
...convinced, young men and women, that a very large minority, perhaps even a majority of the young people who are going to college today, even among those who can afford it, do not go primarily to get the fine education which will not only enable them to make a place for themselves in life but also to render the service to society I mentioned a few minutes ago. Some go to be prepared to earn a better living, some for social prestige, some to make the contacts that will be of service to them in life after the college, some...
...Junior and Senior years of college. I believe, therefore, that were those two years of college to be added to the four years of high school, there would be a gain all around. Many boys and girls who want and deserve a college education but who cannot afford to go to the distant college or state university would get a junior college education. Moreover they would get a better college education for the best teachers of the high schools are at the to whereas, generally speaking, the poorest teachers of the college are at the bottom. Moreover, when the students...
...like grip on the government. Yet no one really takes any definite steps to uproot this evil. The public is apathetic. They have the idea firmly imbedded in their minds that the United States is too rich to feel the effects of losses due to corruption. They can well afford it. To regain the money paid out in taxes seems to be of more importance to the people than the remedy of this thoroughly rotten condition...
...Tutor Door--Massachusetts Avenue at Holyoke--An old English atmosphere that takes you back--way back. If you can afford it, excellent. If you can't, go anyway. It's always amusing. The very best Harlem has to offer. Black Bottom, hey, hey stuff starts at two o'clock. Come later...