The Washington times., 1924-10-24
0|N IN TEN ARE
TIT TED FOR
COLLEGE
Or. cuttei1. President Of Col
gate, says Higher Educa-
ton III TOR Few

!; HAMILTON. n. ", Oct. 24 One
tenth 81 the population Of ths
United States; no more. II fitted
for college and university educa-
ton. II
So declares Doctor George Barton
cutten, preadeht tOf Colgate Uni
yersity.
Doctor Gluten. ii taking this
stand, denies that It can b In
terpreted as advocating higher edu.
cation only for the intellectual
artistocracy. Rather, be affirms.
it Il based upon sound educational
economics.
Outlining HIS theory. Doctor Cut
ten says: 3
.'The charge has been made that
I have advocated education only
for the intellectual aristocracy.
Such charge III untrue. have
advocated college education only for
those who are able to recsive and
profit BY it--that Ii. for about one
tenth OF the population Of this
country. But / believe In and adj
vocate Just as strongly the kind
ana amount Of education which the
other nine.teHiths can receive with
profit. One mistake iii the past
has been to try to force higher
education upon some IL the nine
tenkhs who are not intellectually
able To receive 1t, and to deny It
10 portion 81 the 0fe.tenth who
could profit by ii. Iii the past
there may have been some excuse
for this: now, with modern ap-
planes ana tests, there d none.
Selection Process.
II have already intimaked that
education II itself = process Of Sc
lection, the most efficient means
We have had in the past. Ths diff.
Guilty has been that when the
process OF selection BY education
has taken place II has then been
too late Ia most cases to be Of ad.
vantage to the individual It may
from the school or college, hut It
other lines for himself and to so
ciety.
N It was inevitable that some other
means would be devised, ana this
has come about through so-callcd
mental tests, which measure poten-
tial mentality. The aim Of these
tests is to make q selection early
enough 20 be OF help IN training the
individual and I'm atticulating him
Itn H0ctety I. - -. -.
---'---- = Test Moral Fiber.
I'm the past selection hal. largely
been Of one kind namely. prepare
tory. II . person had completed
the course prescribed Cor entrance
into college that was sufficient, and
entrance into higher institutions
was guaranteed thereby. That
preparation is necessary, for one
cannot build on u shaIy or INSULT
cient foundation, and to permit one to
try to do 30 Is doing more violence
to the pupil than to the college.
This principle Is 20 wen established
as to need no further comment ex-
cept to say that this is only one OF
ct least four tests which should be
applied before admission to college
should be permitted. The four.
necessary tests, then, are as fol-
lows: 1. Preparatory. 3. Physical.
3, Mental ability and BALANCED 4.
Moral land religious).
The fourth form Of test Is the
moral, and this, believe. TO be
most important. II has not been
easy to give such test, nor Is it
easy now. In the past certificate
Of moral character has been De.
manded Of Inatriculants, but In
rH0 ktAR@ SNzersAk-
less either on account Of the igno.
rance 81 the character OF the stu
dent on the part Of the person
signing 1t or because It is difficult
| to refuse to sign such q certificate,
especially IL the family clergyman
! or friend is asked to do so.
Almost anyone can secure such
q certificate from some source re.
CARELESS OF the condition of his
morals. lt has long been recog-
nized that college Is no place for
an immoral person, and when de-
partlire from the lines Of moral
rectitudA has been discovered by
college authorities, expulsion has
been the result.
Restrict Power
even before the attention--not
only OF this whole country, but Of
the whole Ncivilissd world--was
called to the atrocious crime COM
nitted by two educated moral de.
generates people were insisting
that the. great power which educa-
ton undoubtedly gave should not
be intrlstAd to any except those Of
highest character. 1t seems rea-
sOnahle that society should demand
this. II this Is done Il will mean
that greater care will have to be
exercised In the choice Of students
who shall enter college, ami con.
tinued vigilance 70 zee that no un.
worthy ones remain. The public Is
demanding this, ana through the
pressure for entrance into most
colleges the latter are in a position
to satisfy the demand.
Gan this anticipates a more care
full sitting of material, not only for
entrance but for graduation, so that
q degree frem q college or uniVer-
eity shall in the future mean not
simply the fact that certain courses
in Latin or Greek or mathematics
or physics have been completed,
hut It should say In no uncertain
way, Here is q man physically lit,
mentally sound, systematically com
petent and morally clean When
a college degree means that, then
| the college will have arrived"
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