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Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 57: November 1956 Ate this summer a group of serious-minded and virtuous deans of Southwestern colleges turned their attention to the question of what to do with the large num bers of students who will be upon us in the course of the next 10 years. Because of the rising birthrate, there will be 17 for every 10 in your age group by 1970. They proposed that the college course be cut to three years and that students be kept in class from 8 until 5, in order thereby to get four years of classroom work into three. What is more, they described this as the only solution that they could see to the problem. They did not suggest that the students attend college through the summer, for they knew very well that hot weather is a bad time to study serious things, though perhaps they did not practice what they knew. These men were thinking in a quantitative way about education. Their philosophy was the philosophy of the credit-hour. Their objective was to confer as many degrees on as many students as possible. I was asked to comment upon their proposal, and I did.* Perhaps I should have taken the position that what happens in the Southwest is none of our business, but it is, for even Texas is still a part of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.