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Show High Marks & High Salai'e: I Tlejere is title rela.ionship Itetwe'en 'high mankL in co.de., end high salaries or advance rneir.it in later Ue, accord. ng t la ter.-year analysis of tne rec-oiis rec-oiis of .meire thian 1,0 JO college igra'dluates by the Canecgi; Foun dation for ihe Advancement o Tcaahimg. The report raises some inter-esiling inter-esiling speculations. It maiy 'surprise some p.opl'e to Ino-,. tihat high college standing doe not iforevihiadioiw finamcial success but it mlaiy also be observec. thiat, in our imperfectly onga-'ni,ed onga-'ni,ed secic'tiy, imen do not ulway (reap the- rci.vardis tlhiat are eaiv- ltd by sociall usofunosi;. Afl;r ten -years, t'he survc. shows, or.'e-q,u,?.rtci' of the grad alts .Mere carmiieig 1 ss I i..:. $2,000 a year; about ti.e -cfj.. rs were earning kss Iham .y,5,-500 .y,5,-500 and only o.'.L-quar'icr weir, arning mare 'Ineui .'r'ti,..()0. Dr. William S. Learned. of the Fo.i.-.i.iiatio..', finds i. : 'close corrtp:;ndt:' e be.w.v-'academic be.w.v-'academic records la-nU, latti jac'hl'veme.n.s as expressed in jsalaries or advancement in po- Isitions." He report.-, hev-vever, that, m'ore thani iorliy peir cen! of tj'n-e high-mark men sed-ect.l their lit..- eccupa io.'.'s 'because 'oi their "ini-.ri' !" rather t, .:i:'. because u" t'he ".r.iniy r. turn." It g:;.s wilhua saying that n an ideal sociely, ifiiKiinciad rc- 'Aaicl to the individmal should ,be based upon tlhe co.n.riiution of two indivnJJuud to socicay. This, 1 is is plain, is not the fact in many cases. I It must not be overlooked I that many students ini colleges land 'universities fail to exert Uheir maximum capacities in acquiring an education. Very often Uheir memual attention is diverted to extra-ourricula activities. ac-tivities. This accounts, in part, we suspect, tor inls..ances where college students of mediocre lability make oultistanding records rec-ords in after life. I |
