Salient Quotations From President Conant's Address

We should be betraying our heritage if we looked forward to a period of complacent inertia.

The Function of the privately endowed university--to introduce educational innovations, to carry on consistent policy, to limit the size of the student body, to disintegrate sectional outlook, to escape political influence which leads to discontinuous policy.

There will be efforts to find methods of shortening the period of training for certain types of students.

Democracy to me does not spell uniformity.

We shall have reached the point where we are concerned with teaching less and less but at the same time providing a better and better education.

The chief problem of university administration is to attempt to hold the balance between teaching and research.

No method of education will be successful if great teachers--great personalities--are lacking to inspire and lead as well as to instruct.

One of the unfortunate results of the expansion of our activities and the increased specialization has been the resulting lack of fluidity in our funds.

This is a time of peril for the Universities of the world--liberty is the life blood of those who are in quest of truth.