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Show H COLLEGIAN HAS BEST SHOW. H Statistics of Value Furnished by the B Bureau of Education. H Tho United Stated bureau of educa- 1 tlon estimates that of tho 14,794,403 H man over 30 yearn of ago In this H country, 1,757,023 nro without educa- M tlon, 12,054,335 have had only a com H mon school education or its oqujva- M Hut, 057,432 have received a high 1 FChool training In addition and 325,013 m have had college training. 1 The brief biographies of over 10,000 H men commonly considered successful H collected by "Who's Who" afford an op- 1 portunlty for compailson. Of the men H mentioned In "Who's Who" not ono H enrolled himself In the flrBt class the H 1,757,023 without education. From the H Becond class came 1,308, or ono for H every 8.812, and of theso twenty-four H reported themselves as solf-tntfght, 278 H as privately tnught. Kroin class three H came 1,627, or ono for every 404, and H from class four, 7,709, ono for every 1 forty-two. H Tho conclusions drawn by tho com- H,. pliers of tho statistics arc that tho H boy of no education has hardly a H chanco of honorablo distinction; that H. tho lad with a common school educa- H tlon has one chanco hi 9,000, the high H school course Increases tho lad's H chances twenty-two times and a col- H lego education give tho young man H ten times the chance of n high school H boy and 200 times tho chance of a boy B -whose training stops with tho com-B com-B m mon schools. Tho college graduate is B prc-etnlnently successful and tho self- H f- educated man Inconspicuous. |