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of Education that prepared a monograph for the New York

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State Constitution on the subject of education. I read

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from it: Most State Constitutions contain provisions for

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higher education, particularly those that have so much

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statute-like detail in them. On the whole the existing

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provisions tend to handicap States involving coordinated

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systems of higher education and adjusting institutional

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programs to changing population trends and conditions.

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This statement applies only to higher education,

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but we of the Minority feel that words, as many lawyers

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in this room know, are really words of limitation; and they

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certainly are words of limitation on the subject of educa-

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tion.

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Several editorials that have appeared recently

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in newspapers have made reference to constitutionalizing

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the status quo, and indeed this is exactly what would be

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done if the Majority Report were adopted; and so do not

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judge the interest indicated by the Minority on the sub-

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ject of education simply by the quantum of words that

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are used. We feel that education is done a much greater

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service by a few words and is given a chance to grow and