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...gives, doubtless unintentionally, quite a wrong impression of a recent statement of mine before the American Philosophical Society. Perhaps you would wish to correct it. What I really said was this: "In the face of great apparent prosperity, higher education in this country ... is gravely menaced by the difficulty???approaching impossibility?of recruiting an adequate amount of first rate intellectual ability to carry forward this great enterprise." I am sure you will agree that you attribute a very different statement to me. JAMES R. ANGELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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