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The Social Value of the College-Bred William James Address Delivered at a Meeting of the Association of American Alumnae at Radcliff College November 7, 1907 OF WHAT USE is a college training? We who have had it seldom hear the question raised – we might be a little nonplussed to answer it offhand. A certain amount of meditation has brought me to this as the pithiest reply which I myself can give: The best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, the best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you, is this: that it should help you to know a good man when you see hi