makes one think that "The Sabre Tooth Curriculum,” even today, isn't entirely

a mere figure of speecht We cantt expect much of courageous intcllicctual independ-
ence unless the academic world is generally more liberal than that, and more
concerned with intellectual pioneering, I trust it is.

The Life Needs of our day seem to me to entitle us to expect more than that
from those who have in custody the training of youth to attack realistically the
problems they will face during their life span. Those of us whose years arc past
the peak realize that we have lived in the most interesting single lifc span the
world has yet seen. We have witnessed greater happenings in scientific discovery,
mechanical invention, and social change, than were ever crowded into any single
Lifetime in history. More has occured, before the eyes of our generation than
whole civilizations of the past ever saw, from their origin to their decline. But
the probability is that the rising generation will see so much more happen that
they will think of our day as an Alice Set By The Fire period in which relatively
nothing much occured.

They start with the new 200-inch telescope doubling the knowable universe,
They hit the take-off board when peoples and government are fluid with unrest,
When the atom is being shattered, when capital is realizing that the worker must
have an income to absorb its products, when leisure has been at last related to
culture, when exploitation has been wedded to conservation, when chemistry has
brought about soilless gardening. They start just as the last uncharted physical
areas are being explored with flights over the poles, and the pioneering restless-
ness of man must perforce take new directions, seck new worlds to conquer, worlds
where social experimenting has scarcely yet begun. They start where integration
is implicit in the needs of every day, integration of our knowledge and discovery
into the good, the satisfying life, into a synthesized composite of our intellec-

tual with our spiritual forces, to produce a new plastic which will provide the

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