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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nsenior class in a representative group of colleges and universities,\nFortune Magazine, in the issue published a few days ago, reveals two\nsignificant differences between the seniors of this year and earlier\nclasses. First, they want security. In the words of the Fortune\nwriter: \"Above everything else security has become the great\ngoal. The search for security is not new among college men--\ncertainly the senior of the thirties dresmed far more cautiously\nthan his brother of the twenties. But never has it been so over-\nriding, or so obvious, Each campus has its peculiarities, but on\nthe great question of security the U. S. college senior has become\nalmost homogeneous, from the huge metropolitan universities to the\nsmall-tomn campuses.\nSecond, these seniors say they want to do\nsomething for their fellowmen, to improve the common lot. The\nFortune writer says again: \"On every campus the same theme is\nrephrased, and with an intensity that would astound the somewhat\nmore mercenary senior of the thirties. Not infrequently the terms\nborder on the mawkish--as if the goal was simply to defend the little\npeople,--but generally, they boil down to the question of doing\nsomething worth while.\nThese views are in sharp contrast with those of my own class\nof 1928. I don't recall that we were much interestéd in security,\nnational or personal. And why should we have been? The first\nworld war had assumed the intangible qualities of history. The\nworld's great powers had just assured us of international' peace by\nsigning the Kellogg-Briand Pact which stated: \"The High Contracting\nPowers solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that"
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