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Show Two Kinds of Education There is cUmger of developing two sorts of American college education, differing less in education than in prestige pres-tige and "rieleetnoss." The older endowed colleges, on account ac-count of limited funds, have been compelled to limit the number of students. The newer state universitiesJ being supported by the taxes of the very people whose sons and daughters are clamoring clam-oring for admission, have felt obligated to accept all qualified quali-fied comers, and to call on these taxpayers for the necessary funds. The result is that the older institutions have been compelled com-pelled to select on other grounds, even among the educationally education-ally quaiified. Their diplomas will, therefore, be taken as certifying to this selection, while the diplomas of the public universities will certify only to education. Quite as many exceptional persons will doubtless graduate grad-uate from the one as the other, and the grounds of academic selection may not indicate the best qualified for anything else. '( But the burden of proof will attach to the holder of the more democratic diploma, while a certain prosumption will go with the diploma of the institution of limited attendance. attend-ance. H is an unfortunate, but perhaps unavoidable tendency. |