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劣等人而未能抓更强有力，那么它失败是巨大，因为它社会功能已经停止；民主对它敬而远之，对它充耳不闻。