that many complained about the highways during the War of 
1812.

     Now that man has extended his central nervous system 
by electric technology, the field of battle has shifted to mental 
image-making-and-breaking, both in war and in business. Until 
the electric age, higher education had been a privilege and a 
luxury for the leisured classes; today it has become a necessity 
for production and survival. Now, when information itself is the 
main traffic, the need for advanced knowledge presses on the 
spirits of the most routine-ridden minds. So sudden an upsurge 
of academic training into the marketplace has in it the quality 
of classical peripety or reversal, and the result has been a wild 
guffaw from the gallery and the campus. The hilarity, however, 
will die down as the Executive Suites are taken over by the 
Ph.D.s.