Remarks By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath During Debate on Federal Aid to Higher Education
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OCR Page 1 of 15DEBATERS ON FEDERAL AID FOR EDUCATION AGREE ON NEED OF SCHOLARSHIP PLAN*
Dr. McBride: Dr. Rennie has set as the number one requirement in this
country, health. In the development of our. humen resources, that over-all
subject, let us place education a close second.
We have before us now this specific question affecting college and
university education: Can Federal Aid Meet the Demands of Higher Education
in America?
Your two speakers on this program both come from Iowa, but their
opinions on Federal aid are, I think, entirely opposed. Past experience
makes me sure that they will not hesitate to express their opposed points
of view, and in the discussion which follows the statement which each
speaker will make, I hope that we can clarify issues and come to some
greater understanding of this problem of Federal aid in relation to higher
education.
I am going to call first on Dr. Earl` J. McGrath, member of the
President's Commission on Higher Education, which presented that most
exciting report last year, member of many other commissions and holder of
meny posts in college and university education, but most recently appointed
to the helm of education in this country, to the U. S. Commissionership of
Education.
Private Help Needed
Dr. McGrath: Madam Chairmen: Ladies and Gentlemen: No advocate of Federal
aid has ever believed that the contributions of the Federal Government should
Remarks by Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C., and those of Dr. Russell D. Cole, President of
Cornell College, Iowa; and Dr. Katharine E. McBride, President of Bryn Mawr
College, during debate on Federal Aid to Higher Education as part of the Third
Annual Bulletin Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1949.
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