Excerpt from Lewis Institute Bulletin: Alumni Number; July, 1911 It has been estimated that to send a youth through the high school and college costs somebody about five thousand dollars. Whether the young man so educated is actually worth that much added expense is a question that I cannot answer with assur ance. Nor can I say what an educated young woman is worth to the community, though one may feel reasonably certain that ten thousand would not cover it. But it is clear that higher educa tion costs the community a good deal of money, and it is a fair question whether the community is justified in incurring such expense. Why do we do it? Because we have faith that in the long run it pays the community. Higher education reimburses the people in dollars and cents, and in values even more precious. But the investment does not pay unless certain things are accomplished in college. There are perhaps half a dozen things that the college man should have attained if he is to be genuinely worth while to the community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.