Word: lyautey
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...scholars devote their professional lives. It would be anomalous not to pay the same, serious attention to understanding a process so central to the purposes of the University. Rather than hesitate, therefore, we should take inspiration from the story President Kennedy used to tell about the French General Louis Lyautey who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. "In that case," Lyautey responded, "there is no time to lose. We must plant it this afternoon...