Meeting Democracy's Challenge to Higher Education
. . .Now in the great rush of students which is almost at our doors the great state universities will be almost helpless to protect themselves, and many of them which have won distinction as communities of scholars and studentscommunities, each with a personality and a character of its own-will be in grave danger of being distorted and battered out of shape, of being overrun and harried until they lose all sense of direction and quality. It will be squarely up to the independently endowed and privately supported institutions . . . to continue to do their national duty, as I see it, to protect the standards and strive for the ideal community of scholars and students.'