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State universities in the U.S. welcome almost every native son who has a high-school diploma and a craving for higher education. That policy, together with the great G.I. boom, has loaded them up to the rafters. Last week President Robert Gordon Sproul, whose University of California teaches more students (50,109) than any other in the U.S., questioned whether "everybody come, everybody served" was such a good idea after...
...Said Sproul: "[The] function of the university . . . does not require . . . that every high-school graduate must be guaranteed a bachelor's degree. The chief handicap of American higher education . . . has been our too easy admission to university training of large numbers of students . . . not properly qualified by native ability, or previous training, or even social attitude...
Columbia University was looking for a new president to succeed retired 84-year-old Nicholas Murray Butler. The job, reported to pay $25,000 a year, is the ripest education plum in the U.S. And Sproul let it be known that he was considering a big offer...
...Sproul had been tempted before: a California bank once offered him a $50,000-a-year presidency; President Roosevelt wanted him as director of Selective Service. Each time, crowds of students had staged rallies, shouting "Stick with...
...week's end, the students' pleas had worked again. Sproul was staying on: "I believe this is a straight furrow. ... I shall not take my hand from the plow to which it has been set for the past 17 years...