WHAT DO THEY READ?
. "Where is the old lament that college students neglect their books to read newspapers and magazines?" asks the New York Nation. " 'An examination in current history of the European war conducted by New York University,' we read in words that are becoming familiar, 'has revealed a surprising ignorance of facts relating to contemporaneous events.' Not one of fifty-nine students taking a written test answered correctly all the questions, and the average grade was 58 per cent. "Whan Dean Sills submitted the same questions to Bowdoin students, he found that they fell short of a passing mark by a still greater margin. If the students in a metropolis, the students of Hawthorne's and Longfellow's college, do not know what is going on in the world, what students do? Must we conclude that most undergraduates not only fail to read books with interest, but fail to read anything with alertness?"
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 78, 1 April 1916, Page 11
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152WHAT DO THEY READ? Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 78, 1 April 1916, Page 11
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