At the End …

Nowadays it is becoming customary for a young man to feel that if he does not go to University he will not get a good job, and for an employer to feel with equal justice that if he does not go to a University Appointments' Board he will not get a good man. In these circumstances both are likely to agree that the actual content of the degree course matters very little: but there may be considerable uneasiness before they realise they agree on this point.

The uneasiness is, of course, considerably greater, and lasts longer, when, the graduate has demonstrated his interest in his own academic subject by going on to do a higher degree in it.

—The Times Educational Supplement, May 21, 1965.