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Excerpt from Does It Pay to Go to College?: An Answer to the Argument of Mr. R. T. Crane, in the Form of an Address Delivered Before the Graduating Class of the Evanston, Ill;, Township High School
Crane's inquiry. This leaves only 65 letters from the class that he desired to reach. Observe how very narrow is the basis of his con elusions. He first eliminates that vast number, fully fifty per cent, of the college men who have taken technical or scientific work, tacitly admitting that a college education for them is a good thing, even if they enter mercantile life. Then, of the remaining fifty per cent, he eliminates all but 65 out of 555. That is, reduced to percentages, we have 11 per cent of 50 per cent, or a total of about five and one-half per cent of the whole college output as a basis of inquiry. Now, accept ing as correct Mr. Crane's conclusions that about five and one-half per cent of academic college graduates go into business, in his definition of business, what does he find? Let me answer in his own words: Sixty out of the sixty-five say that, if they had their lives to live over, they would take a college course [p. The question whether a college education has been of benefit to them in the performance of their duties and in securing advancement is answered in the affirmative by fifty and in the negative by seven. The others gave no information on this point. [p. It appears, then, that, taking the five and one half per cent of the classical or academic graduates who go into busip uses, 7 out of 65, or a little over 10 per cent, tell Mr. Crane that it does not pay to go to college; while 50 out of 65, or over 73 per cent, tell him that it does pay to go to college.
But what of the other question? Let me again quote Mr. Crane [p. Even those who admit that they would be better off finan cially if they had never gone to college, claim that whatever they lose in this respect, is more than compensated for by the college experience and the increased capacity it has given them for enjoying life. An extreme instance of this is seen in the case of one of these young men, who states that upon leaving college he had neither pull nor capital; that he thinks his college experience was of no material or direct benefit to him in securing a position; that he finally drifted into the cattle business out West, in which he was unsuccessful, and that he is now out of a position. Notwithstanding all this, and admitting, as he does, that, had he continued in business instead of going to college, his financial condition undoubtedly would have been better than it is today, he says: I think I am safe in saying that, if I had the decision to make over again, I should take the college education. It may not make great returns on the investment in actual money; but to the man who has taste and determination, it makes, I feel, adequate returns in the enlarged field he is given for the pursuits of his life with hap piness to himself and with benefit to those about him. This, remem ber, is Mr. Crane's awful example - what he himself calls an extreme case; the worst, obviously, to be found among that ten per cent who replied that it does not pay, financially, to go to college.
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Excerpt from Does It Pay to Go to College?: An Answer to the Argument of Mr. R. T. Crane, in the Form of an Address Delivered Before the Graduating Class of the Evanston, Ill;, Township High School
Crane's inquiry. This leaves only 65 letters from the class that he desired to reach. Observe how very narrow is the basis of his con elusions. He first eliminates that vast number, fully fifty per cent, of the college men who have taken technical or scientific work, tacitly admitting that a college education for them is a good thing, even if they enter mercantile life. Then, of the remaining fifty per cent, he eliminates all but 65 out of 555. That is, reduced to percentages, we have 11 per cent of 50 per cent, or a total of about five and one-half per cent of the whole college output as a basis of inquiry. Now, accept ing as correct Mr. Crane's conclusions that about five and one-half per cent of academic college graduates go into business, in his definition of business, what does he find? Let me answer in his own words: Sixty out of the sixty-five say that, if they had their lives to live over, they would take a college course [p. The question whether a college education has been of benefit to them in the performance of their duties and in securing advancement is answered in the affirmative by fifty and in the negative by seven. The others gave no information on this point. [p. It appears, then, that, taking the five and one half per cent of the classical or academic graduates who go into busip uses, 7 out of 65, or a little over 10 per cent, tell Mr. Crane that it does not pay to go to college; while 50 out of 65, or over 73 per cent, tell him that it does pay to go to college.
But what of the other question? Let me again quote Mr. Crane [p. Even those who admit that they would be better off finan cially if they had never gone to college, claim that whatever they lose in this respect, is more than compensated for by the college experience and the increased capacity it has given them for enjoying life. An extreme instance of this is seen in the case of one of these young men, who states that upon leaving college he had neither pull nor capital; that he thinks his college experience was of no material or direct benefit to him in securing a position; that he finally drifted into the cattle business out West, in which he was unsuccessful, and that he is now out of a position. Notwithstanding all this, and admitting, as he does, that, had he continued in business instead of going to college, his financial condition undoubtedly would have been better than it is today, he says: I think I am safe in saying that, if I had the decision to make over again, I should take the college education. It may not make great returns on the investment in actual money; but to the man who has taste and determination, it makes, I feel, adequate returns in the enlarged field he is given for the pursuits of his life with hap piness to himself and with benefit to those about him. This, remem ber, is Mr. Crane's awful example - what he himself calls an extreme case; the worst, obviously, to be found among that ten per cent who replied that it does not pay, financially, to go to college.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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