"We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own."

“It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?”

“Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.”

“Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools.”

“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.”

“It is worthy of notice that many of this generation, fed on text-books, on anthologies and on abstracts, cannot read.”

“It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.”