II. What do you consider the most important values received from your college course? Broader views of life 21 Friendships formed 18 Training or ability to think 7 General education as foundation for life-work 11 Influence of professors 36 Technical training 7 III. In the light of your experience, what would you suggest to a boy relative to the kind of preparatory school to choose? High school or public school 45 Academy or private school 33 A school emphasizing athletics 22 IV. Did your college training decide your life-work? Decision before going to college 32 Decision during college 38 Decision after graduation 2 Not yet fully decided 28 The values of a college course are strikingly presented by the following answers: A Johns Hopkins man attributes to his university “a desire for, search after, and acceptance of the truth regardless of the consequences.” A recent alumnus of Boston University says: “I learned to have a far broader view of what teaching (my profession) really is. When I entered college I regarded it as a process of instilling a knowledge of facts in a young person’s mind; when I was graduated I knew that this was a very small part, merely a means to the great end--the development of personality.” A graduate of the University of Georgia says that his college course meant to him “a self-unfoldment, a diversity of interests in life, a growth of ideals, of purposes, and of judgment; strong convictions and friendships.” A student from the School of Mines in Colorado considers the chief value of his college training was the giving him “a vision of a life-work instead of a job”; a graduate of the University of Louisiana writes that the chief value to him was “a realization that I was worth as much as the average man”; while an alumnus of Vanderbilt University said that his course gave him “the feeling of equality and of opportunity to do things and be something along with other men. It has meant, perhaps, a greater chance to do my best.” CHOOSING A COLLEGE