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Show H. I. PHILLIPS College Js 'Mediocracy' Educators are sounding warnings against the administration's expressed ex-pressed hopes that there will be an enrollment of nearly five million in American colleges by 1960. They say it will mean "educational inflation" in-flation" aVd a "tide of classroom medio'cracy." They hint that the time might come when the boy v.ho didn't get a college education would be the lad of distinction in any community. com-munity. Already our colleges are so overcrowded that there is no more chance of the students getting acquainted than there Is in a subway rush. The whole moid of college life Is changing. Where a boy used to get a kick out of making the glee club, he aw 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 big type gives and the small type takes away. |