The Intellectual Is Engage-he Is Pledged, Committed,

The Utopia Of The Populists Was In The Past, Not In The Future. According To The Agrarian Myth, The Health Of The State Was Proportionate To The Degree To Which It Was Dominated By The Agricultural Class, And This Assumption Pointed To The Superiority Of An Earlier Age.

It Is A Poor Head That Cannot Find Plausible Reason For Doing What The Heart Wants To Do.

In Using The Terms Play And Playfulness, I Do Not Intend To Suggest Any Lack Of Seriousness; Quite The Contrary. Anyone Who Has Watched Children, Or Adults, At Play Will Recognize That There Is No Contradiction Between Play And Seriousness, And That Some Forms Of Play Induce A Measure Of Grave Concentration Not So Readily Called Forth By Work.

The American Farmer, Whose Holdings Were Not So Extensive As Those Of The Grandee Nor So Tiny As Those Of The Peasant, Whose Psychology Was Protestant And Bourgeois, And Whose Politics Were Petty-capitalist Rather Than Traditionalist, Had No Reason To Share The Social Outlook Of The Rural Classes Of Europe. In Europe Land Was Limited And Dear, While Labor Was Abundant And Relatively Cheap; In America The Ratio Between Land And Labor Was Inverted.

A University's Essential Character Is That Of Being A Center Of Free Inquiry And Criticism - A Thing Not To Be Sacrificed For Anything Else.