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if preoccupation with other matters in college or lack of a 

 genius level IQ has kept one from the high honor group. 

 Such a person may have to enter a somewhat less cele- 

 brated graduate school, but in most of the first twenty he 

 will find very competent teachers and excellent physical 

 facihties. Finally, we come to the reassuring fact that al- 

 though competition for the best places is admittedly stiff, 

 no one who really wants to go to graduate school will fail 

 to find a place somewhere. 



We should now say a few comforting words about the 

 costs of graduate education and the ways these may be 

 met. Prospective students and their parents are likely to 

 be somewhat frightened by the prospect of three to five 

 years of what looks like financial dependency beyond the 

 level of the college degree. These worries are now more 

 obsolete than the thesis requirement. They stem from the 

 fine old days in which individuals and their famihes were 

 supposed to shoulder the responsibility for the costs of 

 education themselves. In fact it was even thought that 

 education did the individual so much good that he should 

 be prepared to make certain sacrifices like postponing 

 marriage or the purchase of an automobile in order to 

 obtain it. Even in those times, however, some graduate 

 students did marry and then it was the spouse who made 

 the sacrifice. Many a student has thus been said to have 

 worked his way through school "by the sweat of his Frau." 



Nowadays marriage has become the accepted state for 

 most graduate students. Universities often provide housing 

 for famihes, or at least parking space for their trailers, 

 and fellowship programs provide extra allowances for 

 dependents. Many graduate students are married to other 

 graduate students and both receive financial aid in the 

 form of fellowships or salaries for teaching duties. The 

 sweat still appears on the brow of the Frau but more 



