Excerpt from Presidential Scholars, 1973 Each spring nearly three million young Americans graduate from public and private high schools throughout the country. The best students among them traditionally receive scholarships and other prizes for their accomplishments and to encourage them to further develop their talents for their own good and the good of society. This system of recognition and encouragement has been carried to its ultimate level in the Presidential Scholars Program - the highest possible honor for American high school students. By personally recognizing these truly outstanding young men and women each year, the President honors all American youth of high academic ability, the schools that train them, and ultimately the entire educational enterprise. Presidential Scholars are chosen with exacting care. They represent the finest intellectual and leadership achievement in their class, and they are indeed worthy to receive the bronze medallions signifying their honor. The medallions are theirs and the honor is theirs as, indeed, are the extraordinary abilities and unusual potential that won them Presidential recognition. But in a larger sense the true beneficiary of this effort is America itself, a country reaching for the highest levels of excellence in every area of human endeavor, a Nation seeking for all its people the maxi mum opportunity for education to enable them to live lives of challenge, accomplishment, and fulfillment. The Presidential Scholars Program speaks directly to these goals. 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.