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...Chicago, has warned of "educational hoboes"--veterans, unable to get jobs, who will be offered a chance to live at Government expense simply by going to school. In an article in Collier's magazine. Hutchins said, "Educational institutions, as the big-time football racket shows cannot resist money." "The GI Bill of Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever dreamed of . . . They will not want to keep out un-qualified veterans; they will not want to expel those who fail." Hutchins recommended nation-wide examinations to screen out veterans who cannot succeed...
Other educators than Presidents Conant of Harvard and Hutchins of Chicago were less pessimistic and critical in regarding the GI Bill of Rights. President Daniel L. Marsh, speaking at Boston University commencement exercises on Saturday, called the Bill "one of the finest and most constructive pieces of social legislation ever enacted by any government." He observed, further, that "the GI Bill offers opportunity to practically everyone in the armed service except the dishonorably discharged veteran." "How incomparably better it will be for veterans to turn to college pending the finding of jobs than to walk the streets or go into...
...financially shakiest years in educational history, with the virtual vanishing of military units which have held up the treasurer's report at many war-emptied colleges. The colleges' chief hope of solvency, said Walters, was the tuition of veterans staked to free schooling by the GI Bill of Rights...
...Armed Forces Committee on Post-War Educational Opportunities for Service Personnel warned that the GI Bill might prove "extraordinarily costly--both in human and financial terms" if veterans were allowed to prepare for unsuitable or overcrowded vocations...
...University of Wisconsin's President Clarence A. Dykstra thought the GI Bill of Rights would be soundly interpreted: "It will be no kindness . . . to let (any man) do substandard work for any considerable time, or to encourage men to try college work in order to get an education stipend from Uncle...