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Food Future. Dr. Edward Frankland Armstrong, president of the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, said: "Food is the first of all the weapons of preventive medicine and it must be the function of the agriculturists in the near future to grow complete foods and not mere market produce. Life is so complex that we have forgotten how entirely food is its foundation and mainstay. We must discover what chemical substances in food, if any, can give intelligence, courage and alertness to the inhabitants of a city. Can we feed to produce nervous strength and agility in the same...
Lashing the "intellectual anarchy" abroad in the world today, President Conant told the gathering that the liberal arts curricula of the universities have the mission of restoring education to its highest function...
...this balance can be maintained, the universities of this country, privately endowed and publicly supported alike, will function both as instruments of higher learning and as centers for developing a national culture worthy of this rich and powerful land...
Such, it seems to me, was the properly balanced plan of a university in a time when universities were flourishing; such, it seems to me, must be the idea of a university if institutions of higher learning are to fulfill their proper function in the times that are to come. But there have been periods of sickness, even of decay, in the history of almost every academic foundation. If one of the four vital streams I have mentioned either fails or swells to a torrent, thus destroying the proper balance of nourishment, then the true university tradition may perish...
...diffusion and extension of knowledge rather than the advancement." In his famous essay be recommended "a division of intellectual labour between learned academies and universities." (In twentieth century terminology we should substitute the words "research institute" for "academy".) He believed that "to discover and to teach are two distinct functions." Newman's proposal amounted to eliminating one of the four vital ingredients evident in the life of the universities during their healthy periods. Unconsciously he was reflecting the condition of the English universities as he knew them before 1850 when they were still suffering from the long sleep...