Show College Should Train Doers and Says Voiced Opinion of Nationwide Student Polls AUSTIN Texas Nov 15 15 If If American students could plan the course of study for the nations nation's colleges and universities an overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming majority would prescribe I wide cultural background the Student Student Student Stu Stu- dent Opinion Surveys of America find in their latest national poll of or campus thought Only 17 per cent of the country's country s collegians believe that higher education education education edu edu- cation should be mainly technical and professional training The rest say the they prefer a u curriculum I that will embrace a general education education education tion rather than one that will produce produce produce pro pro- duce men and women primarily skilled in the trades and the pro pro- But 37 per cent of this last group make it clear that their choice is the school that presents present presenta a blending of the two extremes Since the weekly polls of the Surveys are arc all based on a coast coast- coast I coast to-coast sampling determined from I t actual enrollments these results r represent present the opinions of the mil mil- lion and a half students in all kinds of colleges both technical and otherwise The fhe Surveys are conducted in cooperation with the Utah Chronicle and nearly other other other oth oth- er campus publications Headquarters are at the University of Texas Tex rex as Austin Last month Brooklyn College inaugurated in inaugurated inaugurated in- in a new president Harry I D. D Gideonse who once quit a University Uni Uni- I of Chicago professorship after much ar argument ment with Dr Robert M. M Hutchins chief chie U. U S. S ex ex- I ex-I of classical education Declared De- De Glared Dr Gideonse at his installation installation installation I lation No UNo college can live by I 1 training the mind alone Talent Talent Talent Tal Tal- ent must now be shifted from sheer cultivation of intellectual virtues to education for the whole man for men as and doers and A surprisingly large number would agree with Dr Hutchins I but there is also a lar large e group that I believes college is the place to train I I both and doers The results of the poll are College Education Should Should- Be maintained technical and professional pro pro- 17 17 per cent Emphasize a wide cultural background back back- ground ground lG per cent Include both both 37 37 per cent Sentiment for professional training training training train train- ing is least popular with New England England Englund Eng Eng- land lund students 7 and most in fa favor favor favor fa- fa vor with Far Westerners 24 All other sections of the country countr agree almost exactly with national student opinion as shown above |