Abstract

Our Ex-President of Universities

The article presents information about the book "The New Reservation of Time," by William Jewett Tucker. Dr. Tucker is not the only retired university president who has in recent years been thinking and writing disinterestedly for the Republic and the cause of mankind but he is perhaps the first to recognize his work as the fruit of a, new and possibly important elderly leisure class. The precious aspects of membership in this class are various. Its members need not speak nor write except when moved by an inner call, they may therefore be expected to purge their utterances of the humdrum official platitudes of the bad days of their presidencies. They are scholars as well as administrators, they may therefore be expected to rise above the violence of an uncritical partisanship.