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Nursing education was, in some respects, a victim of its own success. Nursing students were both superior to untrained women and cheaper than graduate nurses. Nursing students were highly disciplined and compliant young women who could work longer and harder than nursing employees at a fraction of the cost. Nursing students were expected to work at least 8 hr a day and then spend time preparing for classes. In most schools, students worked more than 48 hr a week on day duty and, in about 40% of schools, they worked over 70 hr a week on night duty (Committee, 1934, p. 166). Disturbingly, most of the nursing superintendents in the mid‐1920s preferred student nurses rather than graduate nurses to give patient care. Some of their reasons were: “The student nurse is less apt to be careless in technique, gives better cooperation in regard to hospital regulations, is less extravagant with hospital linen and supplies, and with the help and advice of an experienced supervisor, gives her patients care equal to that of the graduate”… “Graduates on general duty are demanding, exacting, and shifting” (Burgess, 1928, p. 412).