Rev. W. F. Crafts says:
I have examined the educational record of the seventy foremost
men in American politics--cabinet officers, senators,
congressmen, and governors of national reputation--and I find
that thirty-seven of them are college graduates, that five more
had a part of the college course but did not graduate, while
only twenty-eight did not go to college at all. As not more
than one young man in five hundred goes to college, and as this
one five-hundredth of the young men furnish four-sevenths of
our distinguished public officers, it appears that a collegian
has seven hundred and fifty times as many chances of being an
eminent governor or congressman as other young men.
(479)
See TRAINING.
=Collegiate Ambition=--See MARGINS OF LIFE.