The Great American University Quotes

“Eliot, Hutchins, Conant, Terman, and Kerr—created a system that worked. They laid a foundation on which great structures could and would be built. The core elements fit well with the conviction that the system should be detached from government bureaucratic control, and with the sense that competition among the universities to be considered the very best was healthy for the system. In short, the founders put into”
― Jonathan R. Cole, The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected