drawbacks as well as the advantages
of sending a boy to a “fine” college,
if, when doing so, it is fairly certain
he will end up in the bottom ranks of
his graduating class. The aphorism “It
is better to be a big frog in a small
pond than a small frog in a big pond”
is not perfect advice, but it is not
trivial.Stouffer’s study (coauthored with
Edward A. Suchman, Leland C.
DeVinney, Shirley A. Star, and Robin
M. Williams Jr.) appears in The
American Soldier: Adjustment During
Army Life, vol. 1 of Studies in Social
Psychology in World War II (Princeton