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Written in the 40s. "Has the American scene shifted so that we...demand upon every child a measure of success which is...less and less possible...to attain? If we demand that a man must succeed to be regarded as good, how difficult do we dare to make that success without running the risk of breaking the hearts and mind of the many who fail?" Points to good colleges as an example of a difficult to shift success symbol