Education: Stir Up the Mind

If either Lenin or Trotzky were available, they would receive immediate appointments to the faculty of Dartmouth College, founded in 1769 by Eleazer Wheelock and aided by Ben Franklin and John Adams.

Said President Ernest Hopkins to the National Dartmouth Pow-wow at Chicago:

“A man wrote to me protesting against a proposed appointment to the Faculty, contending that I might as well bring in Lenin or Trotzky as the instructor in question. I replied that if Lenin and Trotzky were available I would certainly bring them in! [Applause.]

“I know no man and no interest I could not present if it would stir up the mind of the undergraduate,” he added.