another occupation, but it is more likely to glow in the heart of one who has made education his life work. He also has a greater chance of being accepted by the faculty as an intellectual peer, and he is more sophisticated about the subtle ways in which a college or university operates. If the president's basic devotion is to education, he will be sustained by the rich personal satisfactions derived from his relationship with faculty, trustees, and alumni and its culmination in progress for the institution. He will have to forego the joys of specialized research but he will find intellectual satisfaction in being a generalist in a world in which few people have learned to play that difficult role. He will identify in the graduates and thei...