Show COLLEGE TRAINING PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS does it pay to go to college most people agree that it does but few have taken pains to determine how much it pays president A W van hoose of shorter college georgia and dean everett lord of boston university have both made interesting studies of the value of education according to information furnished by the department of service of the utah agricultural college president van hoose found that a young man or young woman with a college education has times as abriany chances of being successful in life as one with no schooling times as many as one with only an eighth grade education and 9 times as many as one with a high school training while less than one per cent of americana are college graduates president van hoose points out that this small number has furnished 55 per cent of our presidents 54 per cent of our vice presidents 47 per cent of our speakers of the house 46 per cent of our members of congress 61 per cent of our secretaries of state 67 per cent of our attorney generals 69 per cent of our judges of the supreme court and over 50 per cent of the distinguished people of the united states president van hoose also says that every day spent in college is worth to the student and offers the following proof every day spent in college pays the young man or woman 55 55 proof illiterate laborers earn an average of per year in forty years they would earn high chool graduates earn an average 1000 per year in forty years they would earn college graduates earn an average of 2000 per they would earn year in forty years I 1 to get the high school education required twelve years of school r 2160 day in school this time spent in school added to the in comb of the high school graduate divide by 2160 and we have as the amount that every day spent in the grammar and high school was worth to the high school graduate but look a little further while the average amount earned by the high school graduate in an active life of forty years 13 the amount earned in the same time bv the college graduate is he therefore adds to his lifes income by reason of the four years or days that he spent in college the college year being days now if we will divide by we will have 55 55 the that every day in college is worth to a man or woman dean lord attacks the problem from a different angle but gets the same kind of results his investigations have shown that a college grad aate in ordinary life will earn twice as much las a high school graduate and nearly four times as aluch as an untrained individual |