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.

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