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Show : w w ; !! H. I. PHILLIPS ):;! j: ' ; l! College Is 'Mediocracy' ! ' Educators are sounding warnings against the administration's ex- . 1 pressed hopes that there will be an j 1 enrollment of nearly five million in . ' American colleges by 1960. They :;' i-, say it will mean "educational in- ' j flation" and a "tide of classroom "lj mediocracy." They hint that the ; , i j time might come when the boy vho ! i : . didn't get a college education would be the lad of distinction in any com-1 com-1 ! 1 ' i munity. !!;; ' , Already our colleges are so overcrowded that there is no more chance of the students I i getting acquainted than there is ; in a subway rush. The whole mood of college life is changing. 1 j Where a boy used to get a kick J out of making the glee club, he it 'i!- -A- -L. now won't sing unless it's for a radio audition. . . . The freshman fresh-man rush is fading out because the modern student won't wrestle wres-tle without pay. . . . The old rah-rah spirit is being replaced by something resembling the mood in a wartime brass mill. Altogether, boys, three rousing cheers for dear old Willow Run university! uni-versity! Even if you are processed like a Ford fender instead of educated edu-cated like a potential scholar, it is all made easier than yesterday. Nancy Walker says, "Don't bother reading a contract; the bfg type gives and the small type takes away. |