"The university president, like the minister of the forward-looking Protestant denominations, should bring men together in a context of inspiration; he should not gratuitously antagonize them. He should find evil only where it is generally thought to be found, and even then he should spend the larger proportion of his time exalting the good."
"Ritualistic idealism naturally became appropriate to the academic executive, because the role of manager required that such a man always appear confident about his institution. To speak in terms of doubt or failure was to violate the most basic requirement of his office; to do so would at once disqualify him from his post."
-- The Emergence of the American University, Laurence R. Veysey, 1965, p. 382, 437.
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