Show college loses intellectual leadership when coach gets twice professors pay by STEWART PATON lecturer la in neurobiology st t princeton university consider for a moment tile extraordinary opportunity existing at hiis alu a crisis in world affairs for our universities to make adequate provision for supplying supply big 0 tile tho leaders or of thought urgently needed if a triumphant denlo democracy cracy is to bo be assured Is 18 the ilia contribution of these institutions to tho ilia intellectual awakening now in progress to lo be measured only by an all amateurish interest in military preparedness have wo we not reason to expect perhaps wo we may even say eay to demand ionia lid that our universities shall not baso base their chief claims for recognition as aa institutions of learning merely upon traditional ond anh hereditary rights ono proof that the gravity of tile present situation has bas been ampre i might bo be found in some effort to break with tho the restrictive influx eneas imposed by trying to satisfy tho the parochial notions of tho ilia alumni and by placing on governing boards and in ill administrative offices re presenta citizens ifie competent to realize tho ilia value of scholarship and research find tho ilia importance of cultivating broad national ideals tile signs of tho the times indeed threatening but what can we expect tin ilia way of great intellectual leadership from an institution that places 90 little value upon tho ilia influence of example iw as to retain tile tho services vices of an athletic coach receiving more than double tho the recompense of any mcm her of its faculty judged by their spirit and works tho the universities have failed lamentably to rise to meet ilia present situation today when wo are arc so car neatly secil seeking cing tho the abolition of petty sectional feeling and turn to our oldest institutions of learning for a substitute wo we find only a harvard yalo yale or princeton Princ clon sentiment tending to detract from tile idea of service ito ilia general government |