Editorializing in "The Dartmouth"

We print the following with no other comment than that we heartily agree with it and ask all fathers to ruminate over it for a moment: "Some [Dartmouth students this summer] will pull on overalls and punch a time clock in various mills and factories. They will go to work at 7.30 and guide a hydraulic press or unload a conveyor belt for eight hours. There will be those who will pump gas and wash cars for long hours six days a week. Clattering city offices on the eighth floor will be jammed with men who are sitting about sweating in their shirt sleeves doing the monotonous routine of an impersonal organization. A few will be destined to wear stiff collars and sit all day behind a bank wicket and dole out cash to all and sundry. There will be Fuller Brush men, United States Tire men, Better Book men and real bona fide salesmen in shops.

"And it's all a shame. A dirty, rotten shame. As trite and moth-eaten as it may be, we reiterate that you are only young once. What does it matter whether you are or are not going into the ploughshare business? Go ahead, but don't spend three perfectly free summers in voluntary servitude. When you graduate you are going to have to face the pleasant prospect of sitting for forty years at a mahogany desk with a neat fountain pen set, an immaculate blotter, and a memorandum pad snickering at you. Why add three more summers to your sentence? In any ease drive a fire truck, or lead a brass band, but at least do what you damn well want to."