Remarks By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath During Debate on Federal Aid to Higher Education

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DEBATERS 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.