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Show yM College ,hoosing the college to attend, students should con-thP con-thP many factors. Perhaps the first one to consider of instruction that will be received. Some main-' main-' tost the larger schools are able to pay more and in ' !renCe secure better instruction. This may be true comparison of "who's who", does not bear this out. of the famous and successful men and women of ; Nation shows that by far the greater proportion of received their education in the smaller institutions. ; Writing in the The Rotarian, Earl A. Roadman, says "the first purpose of education is to produce an in-:; in-:; mind. In a small college, the best teachers of the i 'iy start the freshmen off in the basic courses of English, ' Ernies, history, political science, philosophy, languages ' ' i'the natural sciences. Usually these teachers are sea-: sea-: ii by long experience, but if they are young, they have carefully chosen and the school has their full services ieir most expansive period of professional development, universities, the tendency is toward large freshmen S3 under graduate students or fellows in research to teaching is secondary to their own studies." He also brings out the point that students in small f eshave the benefit of personal instruction, the friendly j act between teacher and student and fellow students, f he large university the student is only a small cog in a ;jt machine with few opportunities to demonstrate his , tv. Therefore from a standpoint of training, oppor-ti', oppor-ti', and social standpoint it would seem that the small e has far more to offer the individual student than , 'great universities. At least through the first two years .fraction which can be received at our own Dixie Junior |