Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.