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...Chase fears that teaching is to be made a sideline and productive scholarship a final end. The President emphasizes the importance of scholarship only because he considers it a prime necessity, for the making of a good teacher for the University, and for the function of the University as a source of teaching for the whole country, as outlined in his address to the Harvard club of New York...
...fluent machinery of the nation's best-known hotel. Fifteen minutes later something went wrong. The hors d'oeuvres ceased to arrive. Famed Oscar's dishes failed to appear. Wine bottles stopped popping. The Waldorf, that pillar of bourgeois good-living, had temporarily ceased to function. With a feeling akin to that felt in Moscow, March 1917, the Waldorf's dinner guests quietly left...
...space in your columns to discuss what seem to me two great and lamentable fallacies in President Conant's report as you print it this morning. I make no apologies for so sharp a disagreement with Mr. Conant; his views and mine represent two completely hostile theories of the function of a university, and it seems to me that this is a proper moment for a clear definition of these divergent beliefs...
...their community, of their country, and of the world. Certainly this was the purpose in the mind of the great majority of those who have left endowments from their own property or who have voted special privileges and state support to the universities. The subordination of the educational function of a university to any other interest constitutes a betrayal of the implicit or explicit agreement contained in the acceptance of such aid. Such a betrayal is particularly regrettable today, when the fate of democratic institutions is in the balance, when the need for men trained not in factual minutiae...
...university it cannot be the only aim. The great bulk of undergraduates who are not creative scholars do not come here solely to be infused with "a passionate interest in the growth of human knowledge." For since they are never themselves to contribute to that growth, their function would be purely passive. They are here to receive an intellectual training which will enable them better to cope with the problems of society. It is a noteworthy fact that nowhere in his report does Mr. Conant so much as mention the responsibilities of a university in training the leaders of society...