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A bold and percipient gentleman, who happens to be a professor at San Fernando Valley State College in California, has embarked upon a new labor of Hercules. He is Mr. Jack Gourman, and he has just published The Gourman Report: Confidential Ratings of American Colleges (The Continuing Education Institute, Inc., East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona; 1,187 pp.; $17.50).

Nearly every four-year college in this land is examined by Professor Gourman—who is not a mere statistician, but is hot in the pursuit of excellence. From the welter of documents and reports about public and private institutions of higher learning, Mr. Gourman has contrived to extract meaning; and of the campuses listed in the Gourman Report, he awards to every college (though some college presidents will not be grateful) a general “Gourman Rating,” somewhere between and _ points, and also grades non-departmental aspects of these institutions.

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A bold and percipient gentleman, who happens to be a professor at San Fernando Valley State College in California, has embarked upon a new labor of Hercules. He is Mr. Jack Gourman, and he has just published The Gourman Report: Confidential Ratings of American Colleges (The Continuing Education Institute, Inc., East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona; 1,187 pp.; $17.50).

Nearly every four-year college in this land is examined by Professor Gourman—who is not a mere statistician, but is hot in the pursuit of excellence. From the welter of documents and reports about public and private institutions of higher learning, Mr. Gourman has contrived to extract meaning; and of the campuses listed in the Gourman Report, he awards to every college (though some college presidents will not be grateful) a general “Gourman Rating,” somewhere between and _ points, and also grades non-departmental aspects of these institutions.