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Why are so many U.S. colleges overcrowded? Because "there is too vigorous a drive to encourage people to take college education who are not really qualified to do so," said Kenneth C. Royall, chairman of the New York Committee for the White House Conference on Education and onetime (1947-49) Secretary of the Army. "In many instances, college education is not conducive to a better job . . ." His recommendation: more vocational training, less general education in the high school.

P: President Eisenhower recommended lengthening high school and college courses, perhaps to five years each, to meet the needs of modern life, lamented to reporters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver that "college education is not provided free and high school education is." The President's remarks got a cool reception from educators who believe that the solution is to reorganize the schools, not lengthen the years of study.

P: Bucking the trend away from the classics, the University of Maryland decided to revive courses in Latin and Greek that it dropped 13 years ago, named Dr. William Turner Avery, former professor at Louisiana State University, to head a new Department of Classical Language and Literature.

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