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Under the rather undignified title "Should Johnny Go to College", Mr. Christian Gauss, Dean of the College, Princeton University, writes entertainingly in the current Scribners Magazine on the question of who should go to college and why. But his remarks on the subject are more than unusual in not being at all like the customary weighty words and sentiments of distinguished educators, in that they are both keenly perceptive and intelligible as well. The subject is ripe for treatment, in fact, has been treated extensiveley before, but never more humanly...
...hurly-burly over the post war rush of American youth to the educational institutions of the country, a great deal has been said about limiting enrollment, selective admission regulations, and other machinery which would enable the universities and colleges to protect themselves from the thundering herd. Dean Gauss points out that much of this responsibility of selection might well be delegated to the parents of the potential applicant. He then goes on to show by means of very pertinent and quite informal examples of individual cases, the misfortune of social maladjustment in college resulting from the attitude of parents...
...highly ingenious and certainly a new thought on the subject may be credited fully to Dean Gauss. After estimating the average cost of a college education at something over eight thousand dollars, he suggests that parents try the experiment of investing this sum for their child at birth at compound interest rates. What such a sum would have grown to by the time the child reaches the college board period of life is not mathematically estimated, though one must suppose it to be staggering. The moral is, however, how many parents who now send their sons to college with...
Dean Christian Gauss, "I am delighted to see this resumption of relations...
More airplanes came to Princeton and droned above the elms. Dean Gauss said nothing. Students paid $3 apiece for five-minute rides in commercial craft, just to fly over Nassau Hall and snap their fingers. Dean Gauss said nothing. Everyone felt sure that Dean Gauss would enunciate a new prohibition, but Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that...