A University's Essential Character Is That Of

The Tradition Of The New. Yesterday's Avant-gard-experiment Is Today's Chic And Tomorrow's Cliche.

It Is Possible That The Distinction Between Moral Relativism And Moral Absolutism Has Sometimes Been Blurred Because An Excessively Consistent Practice Of Either Leads To The Same Practical Result — Ruthlessness In Political Life.

It Is A Part Of The Intellectual's Tragedy That The Things He Most Values About Himself And His Work Are Quite Unlike Those Society Values In Him.

The Intellectual ... May Live For Ideas, As I Have Said, But Something Must Prevent Him From Living For One Idea, From Becoming Obsessive Or Grotesque. Although There Have Been Zealots Whom We May Still Regard As Intellectuals, Zealotry Is A Defect Of The Breed And Not Of The Essence.

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.