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ONE MORE THOUGHT: I believe more attention should be given to higher post-g r a d u a t e work—two years following college. In order to secure appropriations, presidents of state universities appear to feel that they must have as large an enroll ment as possible. Naturally, the average native intelligence de creases as the number of student increases. This tends to reduce thp standards for graduation. As a re | suit, these more efficient students ; too often do not return to the cities which educated them They take l post-graduate work in some other state and then remain there. I am not ruling out a higher education for those fitted only for trades or manual work. I. however, am argu ing that the future of every city depends on holding the most effici ent and ablest students. Cities brag : too much about their population ’ totals when their future really de i pends on the character, initiative and efficiency of their high school graduates. Let us hold these young people at home in the cities which raised them. Virginia had 1,056 American Indi ! ans in 1950. ,
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