Commencement Address By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath at Muskigum College, The Years Ahead
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OCR Page 1 of 15THE YEARS AHEAD*
Commencement address - June 6, 1949
Muskingum College, Ohio
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 of 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 mon, 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:
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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 sould not have had the advantages of higher
education without this aid.
But these important differences between the class of 1949 ana
its predecessors are superficial. Deeper levels of analysis show an
even greater contrast. In reporting on a survey of this year'
"Commencement Address by Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education,
Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C. at Muskingum College,
Ohio, June 6, 1949
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