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on the ladder in this type of thing. We require today

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that a student have a C average and be recommended by

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his high school principal. We will perhaps be moving

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to the requirement in the next two or three years that

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they be up in the upper level of their graduating class.

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I would like to say, and I hate to disagree with Dr.

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Pullen, but I do personally have a different opinion

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about this matter of public free higher education and

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I would say this, along these lines.

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There are today for any deserving student who

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can qualify for admission adequate loan funds at reason-

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able interest rates to meet his college expenses. There

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are many scholarships for the really deprived, economi-

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cally deprived student. There is the opportunity under

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one of the programs in the Office of Economic Opportunity

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for students to work to earn their needs for college, if

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they are really in a deprived situation from the stand-

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point of economics. In many respects, it seems to me

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that the only students today who are qualified and who

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do not move forward into higher education are those in

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which, where we have failed, I think, to get out and help