Henry M. Wriston

Convention Hall, Kiel Auditorium

The Monday morning general session was based on the report of the President’s Commission on National Goals. Most of the presenters at the concurrent sessions following Dr. Wriston’s address are authors of chapters in Goals for Americans. This program provides the theme for the Convention —Education’s Role in Achieving National Goals. Presiding: JAMES D. LOGSDON, Superintendent, Thornton Township High Schools and Junior College, Harvey, Illinois; President, NASSP Invocation: THE REV. CHARLES B. HART, Webster Hills Methodist Church, Webster Groves, Missouri

How to Finance Higher Education in the Future

While this may be a matter of custom and habit in other institutions, it is law in mine. I have, however, had the opportunity to read the papers of the other participants and have been impressed with the learning and insight they have brought to the various phases of the subject before us. They seem to be in general agreement that the children who are going to make us trouble are already born and, though the United States has not ratified the Genocide Convention, there is no available legitimate way to cut down the number. We must, therefore, face the grim problem of educating them. If the percentage of the age group who go to college continues to increase at the rate it has during the last fifty years, the pressure will be enormous and will require marked readjustments on the part of institutions of higher education. The prospect of such a situation invites alarm, and symptoms of acute anxiety are not missing among those

Commonwealth of Nations: P. A. REYNOLDS. British Foreign Policy in the Inter-War Years. Pp. xi, 182. New York: Longmans, Green, and Com pany, 1954.

P. A. REYNOLDS. British Foreign Policy in the Inter-War Years. Pp. xi, 182. New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1954.

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2.25. British Foreign Policy in the Inter-War Years by P. A. Reynolds is wholly unpretentious. It was designed as a textbook and conforms to the better tradition of such writing. The style is lucid and uncluttered ; the sentences are explicit, and statements are made without hedging. The author is given to recapitulations and summaries at frequent intervals, as one does in a good textbook. In the front there is