The American college in American life . VII. THE INCREASING COST OF ITSEDUCATION. HE increase in the number of studentsin American colleges in the last twogenerations should be still further aug-mented. The period of education, too, shouldbe lengthened for most boys and girls, menand women. Of the students at any one timeenrolled in the public schools of the UnitedStates only twelve per cent, graduate, and theprivate academies and seminaries exhibit as lowa percentage of graduates as seven. Manycollege classes show a decrease of one fifth,and I have known classes to summon only onehalf as many
The American college in American life . VII. THE INCREASING COST OF ITSEDUCATION. HE increase in the number of studentsin American colleges in the last twogenerations should be still further aug-mented. The period of education, too, shouldbe lengthened for most boys and girls, menand women. Of the students at any one timeenrolled in the public schools of the UnitedStates only twelve per cent, graduate, and theprivate academies and seminaries exhibit as lowa percentage of graduates as seven. Manycollege classes show a decrease of one fifth,and I have known classes to summon only onehalf as many men upon the Commencementplatform as stood together in the Freshmanyear. We ought to do all that can be done tohave the pupils of the grammar-school enter 242 Increasing cost of its Education. 243 the high-school, to cause students of the high-school to complete the course, and to urgeQ^raduates of the hig-h-school to take decrees atthe college. It is never to be denied that many men andwomen do not want a collecre education. Itis als
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