Show selective methods of registration at colleges unfair practice 1 1 by FATHER JOHN P president university of detroit Detroi tv OU do not need psychological intelligence social and financial YOU V tests which boino colleges tire aro employing to determine whether a boy or girl is fit to attend college dk A sincere desire to attend a university is in most cases tho ilia best test of fitness tile tho boy and his parents should lo be allowed to oi determine whether lie shall go to college collego for they know better than psychological experts or blue book readers what motives impel him tho the community tho ilia family nud and ilia college graduate benefit too much by a boys graduation from college to put down hard find and fast rules rulea that eliat will par ar him this is not progress in education it is a barrier to education af after ter all every college lias has regulations and rules fundamental to the very existence of colleges as institutions of higher learning which prohibit a certain ascertain amount of our youth from attending college to register a boy must bo be a graduate of high school with marks mark s above a certain level but if liis his father is not in the social register if the ilia boy must work hi his s way through a college and if lie ho cannot count in in one minute is ho he to be barred Is ambition to be thwarted Lincol ns life is tile answer and history is filled with examples furthermore the undesirable student eliminates himself from college if lie he cannot keep up ill with his work and fails lio lie is soon goon on liis his way back home but ilia point is that lio lie lias has had ilia his chance and that is what lie should bo be given if lie wants it the american Anic college owes it to humanity to keep its doors open to all who can call fulfill the basic requirements that leaves it up ill to ilia youth hini himself self to win or lose a college degree |