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

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.