Commencement Address at the University of Louisville by Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Freedom and Security Tomorrow
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OCR Page 1 of 15FREEDOM AND SECURITY TOMORROW *
The class of 1949 is perhaps the most remarkable graduating
class in the history of our country. This sounds like old-fashioned
commencement oratory. But the facts show that it is more than that.
This is no ordinary class.
The class 1949 is the largest ever to graduate from American
colleges and universities. And it is different from those which have
gone before. It contains a larger proportion of men, of whom some
two-thirds are veterans. They are from three to four years older
than graduates of other years. A third of these men are married, many
of them to members of their own class. In contrast with earlier
classes, they have been more eager to get the most from their education.
They have achieved more. In still another respect they are different:
many of the veterans have been educated under grants from the
Federal government. Our best available information is that more than
half of these men and women would not have had the advantages of
higher education without this aid.
But these important differences between the class of 1949 and
its predecessors are superficial. Deeper levels of analysis show an
even greater contrast. In reporting on a survey of this year's
senior class in a representative group of colleges and universities,
By Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C. - commencement address at University of
Louisville, Kentucky, June 13, 1949
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