Who Said That?

What well known academic administrator said this?

"I should like to make the young gentlemen of the rising generation as unlike their fathers as possible."

Please leave your guess in the comment section below.  If you cannot help yourself and feel like you must cheat (by doing a google search), please do not ruin it for everyone else by then posting the answer!  The whole point is to make a guess.

Some have asked me to bring this Riddleblog feature back, but that will depend upon how the impatient among us behave themselves . . .  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Monday, March 17, 2014 at 02:58PM by Kim Riddlebarger

Before he was making the world safe for democracy, Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton.  The quote is taken from his essay, "What is Progress?" which is found in American Progressivism:  A Reader (edited by Ronald Prestino and William Atto, Lexington Books, 2008), 48.

You have to drink very deeply from the well of William James and John Dewey to affirm something this antithetical to Wilson's professed Presbyterian theology and the covenant which is so central to it.

Comments

[Nate Grimsley]

What a great question. Sadly, I cannot answer due to you sharing this at lunch at Church a few weeks ago.

["lee n. field"]

I'm going to guess Dewey.

[Mike]

Horace Mann?

[RubeRad]

I don't have a real guess, but I'm thinking it will be from the 1700s, maybe connected with Harvard or some other really old American university.

Or hey, maybe it's Machen?

[David M]

Dewey--that was my initial reaction.

[Paul L.]

I remember the phrase "rising generation" used in another "Who Said That?" quote. It seems to have been a favorite of smug late-19th/early-20th century modernists.

My guess: John Dewey

[David Q]

Winston Churchill would be my guess.

[Philip]

Charles Hodge