The Time Has Come

THOSE of my age and generation will recognize the source from which the title of this talk has been plagiarized, but for those of later decades, born when mothers held a bottle or diaper in one hand and a book on child psychology in the other, after the inception of Home and School or Parent and Teacher Associations, and following the development of educational toys and books for children, it might be pointed out that the title is a part of the elocutionary effort of Tweedeldee in “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.” Six of the lines read: ‘The time has come’, the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings’ “The time has come to talk of many things” concerning Universities—teaching, research, philosophy, organization, …