"So far as the colleges go, the..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.
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“College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.”
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