 Are the two thousand students truly being sent off to college?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, September 1962. "When I first came here, the Manpower Utilization Directorate, Division of Libraries and Education was a shambles. "I see they're sending two thousand students to d'Land," Retief said, glancing at the Memo for Record. "The Bogans have launched no less than four military campaigns in the last two decades. They're known as the Hoodlums of the Nicodemean Cluster. "Breaking and entering," Retief said. That's an industrial world of the poor but honest variety." "Our function is merely to bring them together. And remember: here at Corps HQ, all eyes are upon you." The wine crop is just about ready. "Only mature every twelve years. We've turned all the land area we've got into parks and farms. Five of 'em. Blue-black sky, stars visible all day. Lots of skiing, bob-sledding, ice skating; and it's the season for woodworkers. The theatres are set up on the sand, or anchored off-shore. You have the music and the surf and the bonfires and stars—we're close to the center of a globular cluster, you know...." Fruit, grain, that kind of thing; getting it in doesn't take long. But this year...." Course, I'm only twenty-eight; I can't remember but two other harvests. Picking Bacchus grapes isn't a job you can turn over to machinery—and anyway we wouldn't if we could. Miles and miles of vineyards covering the mountain sides, and crowding the river banks, with gardens here and there. Big vines, eight feet high, loaded with fruit, and deep grass growing between. There's prizes for the biggest day's output, bets on who can fill the most baskets in an hour.... The sun's high and bright, and it's just cool enough to give you plenty of energy. Fresh-baked bread ... and wine, plenty of wine. Matter of fact, pretty near half our young-uns are born after a vintage. That would make them only twelve years old by the time—" "Oh, that's Lovenbroy years; they'd be eighteen, Terry reckoning." "I was thinking you looked a little mature for twenty-eight," Retief said. "What we figured was, maybe you Culture boys could help us out.
 No, because there exists few academic resources for them where they are heading.
 No, because there exists few academic resources for them where they are heading.  Yes, because there is a small college out where the students are heading.  No, because they are going to a rural setting.  No, because Retief has suspicions over the situation of transporting the students.