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人类影响而未能抓更强有力基调，那失败是巨大，因为社会功能已经停止；民主对敬而远之，对充耳不闻。