. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... is conscious of a call to account very strictly to the world for such talent or poweras a man may have. The Field ITS AREA WHAT has already been said suggeststhat the field of the college is more thana mere geographical or pedagogical area. It isalso an intellectual, moral and spiritual adequate survey would include a study ofall the springs of impulse and comingling in-fluence and purpose which have united to makethe American college. It would describe itscontributions to t
. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... is conscious of a call to account very strictly to the world for such talent or poweras a man may have. The Field ITS AREA WHAT has already been said suggeststhat the field of the college is more thana mere geographical or pedagogical area. It isalso an intellectual, moral and spiritual adequate survey would include a study ofall the springs of impulse and comingling in-fluence and purpose which have united to makethe American college. It would describe itscontributions to the social, civil, economic andreligious life of the nation. Some of thesethings have already been suggested in the pre-ceding paragraphs. Others will be mentionedlater. AN ILLUSTRATION BEFORE passing to the description of themore material aspects of the field of col-lege activity it will be interesting to note thework of college graduates and their relationto the life of the community as indicated bythe accompanying illustration: The forty-three colleges from which the figures LIFE WORK OF COLLEGEGRADUATES. REPORTS FROM 43 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGESCONCERNING 38,827 FORMER STUDENTS AMERICAN EDUCATION: Denominational Institutions 161 used in this illustration were obtained aresufficiently typical and widely scattered tomake the statement significant. The out-standing fact is that college groups are leadersin the communities in which they live and per cent, of those whose occupa-tions are definitely known belong to groupswhich, in every community, are the naturalleaders. In any community no other four menwill ordinarily exert the aggregate of influenceexerted by the minister, the teacher, the lawyerand the physician. Moreover, these fourgroups are composed of those who, for the mostpart, are guided by altruistic motives. Evenif the cynically inclined would exclude lawyersas a group from altruists, it may still be saidso far as these figures are concerned they showthat
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