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That genial iconoclast, John R. Tunis, whose official calling in life is tennis expert, but who some time ago addressed himself to the problems of education in America, has taken another shot at the colleges of the nation in an article in the current Scribner's entitled "Selling Scholarship Short...
Tunis, who is best known to Harvard readers as the author of "Was College Worth While?" based, he said, on reports from members of the Class of 1911, declares in his article, that the whole problem of getting students boils down to this: "There aren't enough clients to go...
One of the worst features of this unhealthy and undignified competition for students, Tunis continues, is that many of the smaller colleges now are developing for better sales forces than teaching staffs. Nearly all have "recruiting agents," or "Directors of personnel" who receive flat commissions on each student brought in...
Harvard escapes with clean hands from Mr. Tunis' wholesale charges, inasmuch as this University rejects hundreds of applicants annually. His wrath falls particularly upon the smaller colleges of the mid-West and South, and those schools specializing in advertising-agency prepared catalogues. These booklets, "slick-looking volumes on glazed paper...
"Will someone please explain to a bewildered layman what all this has to do with education?" asks Mr. Tunis in conclusion. "No wonder President Hutchins of Chicago observes that the American colleges today offer fresh air, green grass, good food and exercise, exactly the same as the resort hotels.