"I do not think that one is entitled to escape by silence the obligations of Citizenship. It makes all the difference in the world," said Coleridge, "whether one puts truth in the first place or in the second." A university that proposed to study matters of social constitution must expect to find true controversy within its halls in an age when these are a matter of profound dispute. If it is not prepared for free competition of ideas, it is not, in the [unclear: true] sense, a university.