Excerpt from Tartan, 1966 When a nation rises up and decides that the educational needs of her citizens deserve a first draft on her resources. It is a high point in her history. Our decade is witnessing this grasp upon the vital realities of a nation's self-consciousness. American citizens are be coming more aware that the greatest wealth of our land lies in the talents of our citizens than at any time in our national life. For the first time, we shall soon witness the opportunity for every young man and every young woman of college age and of college ability to achieve a college education. What this will mean to the product of human imagination and aspiration is as yet only a national dream. But it is doubtless a fact that if the I960's have been unparalleled in the technological advances of man. The l970's will witness an intellectual and technical advance which will leave even the recent past far in the distance. Two directions are assumed in this educational expansion to which our day's opportunities are being addressed. The first direction is that of disposing the national resources to the education of every possible citizen. The second direction is a search for talent a mission of peculiar proportions which endeavors to find that highly selected group of young men and young women. Whose natural endowments and whose cultural exposures lend promise of the highest possible achievement. It can be expected that the public institutions of our land will be geared to the education of the great numbers of college age youth. It devolves. Therefore. Upon the responsibilities of the private colleges to seek out that segment of the talented and the highly motivated youth who have already demonstrated that they have the ability and the ambition to pursue a maximum effort in order that they may contribute to a maximum service to their community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.