We find him, for example, in his capacity as chairman of the Committee of Presidents of the Universities of Ontario, addressing himself (with marked courage, considering his audience of deans of graduate faculties and heads of aspiring university departments) to the dangers of uncoordinated empire building in graduate work and to the possibly greater danger of over- playing graduate teaching and r [...] The judiciously balanced arguments bespeak the legal mind capable of incisively baring the essentials of a problem and cutting through the rhetoric and mythology that permeates so much of the contemporary discussion of the university in crisis. [...] In a day when the radical left finds it fashionable to dismiss the tenets of liberal democracy as irrelevant and passé, it is good to be reminded once again of the intellectual virtues they instil: the broad spirit of tolerance and of intellectual humility which proponents demonstrate in both thought and deed; the capacity to suspend judgement until all the arguments are in; the pragmatic willingn [...] These are the qualities and values that shine through these addresses: the object under scrutiny is the social institution we call a university, but the subject at the heart of the matter is the individual and the liberation of his potential as a rational being to which the university should dedicate its functions. [...] It is the attainment of this last condition by positive efforts on the part of the university community itself that may prove to be the major challenge for the university in the seventies.