According to the agreement made with the colleges, the first class to be included in this plan would enter college in September, 1936. Therefore, preparations were made to study the graduates of the Thirty Schools as they pursued their careers in college. Volume IV of the Commission's Report, entitled Did They Succeed hi, College? gives a detailed, complete account of this investigation and of the findings that resulted. Here, in this over-all report of the Eight-Year Study, the way in which the college study was conducted and the findings thereof are reported in summary only.

The college investigation was made under the immediate direction of Dr. Ralph W. Tyler, Chairman of the Department of ]Education for the University of Chicago. Responsible, impartial members of college faculties who knew how to work with college students were chosen to make the study. ¹ It should be understood that this college staff approached their work without prejudice and without commitments to the Progressive Education Association or to the Commission.

Their task was a challenging one, for the first questions the), had to answer were these: What does success in college mean? Upon what basis shall judgment be rendered? What are the significant aspects of the student's life at college? How can we discover and record the important evidences of his growth and development?

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