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Who Believes in Education?

The Association of American Colleges, founded fifty-two years ago, held during the second week of January, at St. Louis, its annual meeting. Most of the people present were presidents and deans of the five-hundred odd liberal arts colleges which make up the Association: a great deal of intelligence to get together in one room. This was a gathering far different from the rigged White House Conference on Education, at which the public-school bureaucrats and the zealots for federal aid to schools put on their usual show, late last year. For the college officers of this Association are eminently men and women of independent mind, not liable to buy pigs in pokes.

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Who Believes in Education?

The Association of American Colleges, founded fifty-two years ago, held during the second week of January, at St. Louis, its annual meeting. Most of the people present were presidents and deans of the five-hundred odd liberal arts colleges which make up the Association: a great deal of intelligence to get together in one room. This was a gathering far different from the rigged White House Conference on Education, at which the public-school bureaucrats and the zealots for federal aid to schools put on their usual show, late last year. For the college officers of this Association are eminently men and women of independent mind, not liable to buy pigs in pokes.