Quotes by Abbott Lawrence Lowell

“Of course theres a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors dont take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.”

“Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates”

“Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that theyll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony”

“The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.”

“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”

“It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, its not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.”

“The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.”

“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue”

“Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist”

“The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed”