Abstract
TT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO QUARREL with the general propositions laid down by Mr. Cyrus Eaton in his good-natured fling at the academic guild.' Professors cannot as a class afford to live in an ivory tower nowadays. If their thinking is to play its part in society, some of them, at least, must intermittently address a wider audience; and lest they defeat their ends, such utterances must be intelligible. Finally, overspecialization is a thing of evil, and the expert vastly enriches his personality by contact with the general cultural heritage. It is when Mr. Eaton strays from laudable abstract principles that he comes to grief. Quite legitimately he presents the claims of the town against the wearers of the gown. But he is misled by unfamiliarity with the concrete conditions in which the academic guild works; and he fails to put his finger on the real difficulties of popularization because he naively identifies them with the sesquipedalian verbiage paraded by a clique of professorial mountebanks. The facts are rather different.
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