Excerpt from Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America

The change came none too soon. Harvard College, to be sure, has always been tme to what remains its oldest and strongest tradition - that every man and eveiy generation has an inalien able right to think. Thereby the men and the generations make their conclusions - no matter how orthodox - impregnably their own. The deep conservatism which has preserved this heretical tradition for above two centuries has resulted in a good many superficial changes meanwhile. The first conclusion arrived at by people who do their own thinking is generally that their immediate predecessors have been seriously mistaken. And the Harvard of one generation has almost always been a perceptibly different place from the Har vard of the next. The unparalleled growth of the college during the past twenty years, however, has made the most marked change in its history.

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