| Show college loses intellectual leadership when coach gets twice professors pay V B STEWART PATON 3 L lAc lecturer in neurobiology it ft princeton university r consider for a moment the extraordinary opportunity existing at this crisis in world affairs for our universities to make adequate provision provision for supplying the leaders oi of thought urgently needed it if a triumphant democracy is is to be assured Is the contribution of these institutions to the intellectual awai awakening ening now in in progress to bo be measure measured donly only by an amateurish interest in j military preparedness A PW i 1 havo wo wa not reason to expect perhaps we may even say bay to demand that our universities shall not base their chief claims for recognition as aa institutions of learning merely upon traditional and hereditary rights one proof th that atthe 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 on governing boards and in administrative offices representative citizens competent to realize the value of scholarship and research and the importance of cultivating broad national ideals the signs of the times are indeed threatening but what can we expect inthe in the way of great intellectual leadership from an institution that places so little value upon the influence of example as to retain the services of an athletic coach receiving nore more than double the recompense of any member ber of its faculty judged by their spirit and works the universities have failed lamentably to rise to meet the present situation today when we are so earnestly 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 to detract from the idea of service to the general government t |
