Show OUR SMALLER COLLEGES In Many Inspects They Are Doing Better Work Than tho the Larger Institutions There arc are a few ew striking facts about the small American college writes Edward W. W Bok in The Ladies' Ladies Home Journal One striking fact is that CO GO COper GOper per cent of the brainiest Americans who have risen to prominence and success are aro graduates of colleges whose names are scarcely known outside of their own states It is a fact also that during the tho past ten ye years rs the majority of the new and aud best methods of learning have bave emanated emanated em em- n fr from m the tho smaller colleges and aud have been adopted later by tho the larger ones Because a college happens to Le be unknown n miles from the place of its location does not always mean that the tho college is not worthy of wider re- re The fact cannot be disputed that tho the most direct teaching and tho the teaching most productive of good results is being done in iu tho thu smaller small small- er American colleges The names of these colleges may net be familiar to the majority of people but that makes them none the the less less worthy worthy wor wor- thy places of learning The Tho larger colleges colleges colleges col col- leges are unquestionably good but there are smaller colleges just as good and md in some respects better Some of the finest educators we wo have bave are attached to the tho faculties of the smaller institutions institutions institutions of learning leaming Young girls or young men who are being educated at one of the smaller colleges need never feel that the tho fact of the college being a asmaH small cue places pieces them at nt a disadvantage in comparison with the friend or companion companion companion com com- panion who has been sent to a larger and better known college It is not the college it is the student |