| Show college loses intellectual leadership when coach gets twice professors paar by STEWART PATON lecturer in in neurobiology it t princeton university Uni vertily consider for a moment the extraordinary opportunity existing at this crisis in world affairs for our universities to make adequate provision for supplying the leaders of thought urgently needed if a triumphant democracy is to be assured Is the contribution of these institutions to the intellectual awakening now in progress to be measured only by an amateurish interest in military preparedness have we not reason to expect perhaps we may even say to demand that our universities shall not base their chief claims for recognition as institutions of learning merely upon traditional and hereditary rights one proof that the gravity of the present situation has been appreciated might be found in some effort to break with the restrictive influences imposed by trying to satisfy the parochial notions of the alumni and by placing 0 on gov governing eming boards and in administrative offices representative catiz citizens en s competent to realize the value of scholarship and research and the importance of cultivating broad national ideals L the signs of the times are indeed threatening but what can we expect in the way of great intellectual leadership from an institution that places so little value upon the influence of example as aa to retain the services of an ait athletic betic coach receiving mom mo than double th ih r recompense e of any mem memi i her ber of cf its faculty judged by their spirit antl and works the d he universities have failed lamentably to rise to meet the present situation toda today Y when we are so earnestly eary cary seeking the abolition of petty sectional feeling and turn to our oldest institutions of learning for a substitute we find only a harvard yale or princeton sentiment tending tend to detract from the idea of service to the general government |
