said the Grasshopper. ‘Taking it to our nest,’ said the Ant. ‘What’re you doing that for?’ ‘Food for the winter,’ said the Ant. ‘Gotta get ready for the winter.’ ‘Why?’ ...

The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.

The recommendation of Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University to partition the student bodies of the American universities into the two divisions of kindergartens and colleges, seems to be an ...