WHERE IS THE COLLEGE-MADE MAN?

Abstract

A Philadelphia paper recently contained the following paragraph, which is deserving of some comment: Andrew Carnegie having recently asked: "Where is the college made man?" the superintendent of schools in Sioux City, Iowa, has directed a systematic search for the missing individual, with no little success. A canvass of the leading men in the following named professions and occupations in the principal towns of Iowa gave these results, which are published in the<i>Educational Review</i>for March: The position of the medical profession in the above is not as satisfactory as one might wish, but it puts it fairly in the category of the learned professions, there being a long step between it and the next below. There is no good reason, however, why doctors should have, to any extent, less general education than lawyers, and with modern tendencies in professional education, it is very possible that their respective positions