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COLLEGIANS WASTING TIME, THINKS DARROW

PREDICTS CHANGE IN SYSTEM OF STUDY

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"Considering what you get out of it, you certainly spend an awful lot of time in college," was the opinion of Clarence Darrow, famous criminal lawyer, when interviewed for the CRIMSON. "I have no doubt that college is beneficial to some, but if, as it appears to me, the aim of the majority of men is to make money, it is a great waste of time.

"You can get all the contacts and experience college is supposed to give by going out into life right off." Mr. Darrow said he did not wish to be dogmatic on the subject of college education for those who had the time to gather it, "but," he added, "if you are out to make money you are throwing your time away at college.

"Colleges are steadily changing, though; at one time it was thought that Latin and Greek were absolutely essential. Now that stage has been outgrown, it is similarly qnite possible that in time the present college ideas on college education will change and adapt themselves to the money-making psychology which has such a grip on this country."

Asked whether or not he believed the Harvard Business School to be an asset to a young man entering business, Mr. Darrow expressed great admiration for the Business and Law Schools, but remarked, "To my mind a man has a definite bent in his nature for some activity, and if it is for business he can get along without the extra training, while if it isn't he won't get anything out of it."

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