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Calvin Coolidge: Unless these conditions are changed, these professions will not attract to their services young men of the same…

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Unless these conditions are changed, these professions will not attract to their services young men of the same comparative quality of ability and character that in the past they commanded.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge argues that without changes, teaching and clergy roles will struggle to attract capable individuals.

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