Article based on testimony before the House Special Subcommittee on Education and reprinted from the "Washington Post (3/23/69) under the title of "The Perils of Overexposing Youth to College.

Condensed from "The Center Magazine, Volume 2 (January 1969), 75.

Originally published in Washington University Magazine, Fall, 1968.

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