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more selective than others who appear to enter only

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those who have perhaps higher ability to learn. What

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I'm trying to get at is whether you are suggesting that

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the colleges could still provide a free education, but

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within limits of the persons who could go by reason of

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their mental capacities?

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DR. PULLEN: :I think I sec your point. Let

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us look nt it this way, Mr. Eney. If the public schools

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do not take care of them, private institutions come

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along and do it for them. We will have this year between

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7500 and 8,000 students paying for their education. That

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is true of a lot of other private institutions all

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around. How, not all of it is because they think they

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are getting a better education or getting this or that,

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and so on, but somewhere along the line public schools

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are not serving, and when I say public schools, I mean

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colleges and universities — let's take a university.

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If a university wants to apply itself to

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research and set up certain standards for that, all

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right. Even at public expense. But, if it does so, it

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has no right to make a distinction between two students