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Show IDEA ANNOYED OLD GOLDE He Knew From Experience That College Col-lege Education by No Means Unfitted Boy for Work. "Woodrow Wilson naturally believes in a college education for boys and girls alike," said a banker at the Princeton club in New York. "Mr. Wilson, lunching with me here, once said in his quaint way that the oi l idea. about a college education un-fiuiuj un-fiuiuj a lad for work had quite died out. "We no longer hear," he declared, "stories like that of Gobsa Golde. "When Gobsa Golde's son Scatter-good," Scatter-good," he explained, "desired to go to Princeton, he said to the old man: " 'Pater, is It true that boys who go fo college are unfit for work afterward?' after-ward?' "'Of course it ain't., true!' snorted the old man indignantly. 'Why, I've got a Princeton graduate runnin' my freight elevator, two of my best coal heavers are Harvard A. B.'s and a Yale B. S. is my star truck driver.' " |