I do not deny that force has to be used, but I think the forms of the struggle should fit as closely as possible to the opportunities presented by th… - H. G. Wells

one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

"We were making the future," he said, "and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!"

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. The three or four years' course of lectures, the bachelor who knows some, the master who knows most, the doctor who knows all, are ideas that have come down unimpaired from the Middle Ages. Nowadays no one should end his learning while he lives and these university degrees are preposterous. It is true that we have multiplied universities greatly in the past hundred years, but we seem to have multiplied them altogether too much upon the old pattern. . [A] new university is just another imitation of all the old universities that have ever been. Educationally we are still for all practical purposes in the coach and horse and galley stage.