FEJEVARY: And let the college go to thunder? I'm not willing to do that. I've made a good many sacrifices for this college. Given more money than I could afford to give; given time and thought that I could have used for personal gain. HOLDEN: That's true, I know. FEJEVARY: I don't know just why I've done it. Sentiment, I suppose. I had a very strong feeling about my father, Professor Holden. And this friend Silas Morton. This college is the child of that friendship. Those are noble words in our manifesto: 'Morton College was born because there came to this valley a man who held his vision for mankind above his own advantage; and because that man found in this valley a man who wanted beauty for his fellow-men as he wanted no other thing.' HOLDEN: (_taking it up_) 'Born of the fight for freedom and the aspiration to richer living, we believe that Morton College--rising as from the soil itself--may strengthen all those here and everywhere who fight for the life there is in freedom, and may, to the measure it can, loosen for America the beauty that breathes from knowledge.' (_moved by the words he has spoken_) Do you know, I would rather do that--really do that--than--grow big. FEJEVARY: Yes. But you see, or rather, what you don't see is, you have to look at the world in which you find yourself. The only way to stay alive is to grow big. It's been hard, but I have tried to--carry on. HOLDEN: And so have I tried to carry on. But it is very hard--carrying on a dream. FEJEVARY: Well, I'm trying to make it easier. HOLDEN: Make it easier by destroying the dream? FEJEVARY: Not at all. What I want is scope for dreams. HOLDEN: Are you sure we'd have the dreams after we've paid this price for the scope? FEJEVARY: Now let's not get rhetorical with one another. HOLDEN: Mr Fejevary, you have got to let me be as honest with you as you say you are being with me. You have got to let me say what I feel. FEJEVARY: Certainly. That's why I wanted this talk with you. HOLDEN: You say you have made sacrifices for Morton College. So have I. FEJEVARY: How well I know that. HOLDEN: You don't know all of it. I'm not sure you understand any of it. FEJEVARY: (_charmingly_) Oh, I think you're hard on me. HOLDEN: I spoke of the tenth anniversary. I was a young man then, just home from Athens, (_pulled back into an old feeling_) I don't know why I felt I had to go to Greece. I knew then that I was going to teach something within sociology, and I didn't want anything I felt about beauty to be left out of what I formulated about society. The Greeks-- FEJEVARY: (_as_ HOLDEN _has paused before what he sees_) I remember you told me the Greeks were the passion of your student days.