If a college, through the inferior human influences that have grown regnant there, fails to catch the robuster tone, its failure is colossal, for its social function stops; democracy gives it a wide berth, turns toward it a deaf ear.

如果一所大学由于那里盛行的劣等人类影响而未能抓住更强有力的基调，那么它的失败是巨大的，因为它的社会功能已经停止；民主对它敬而远之，对它充耳不闻。