I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum....I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours... instillers of stodginess.

John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to sing the Carmagnole" (ed. Univ Pr of Colorado, 1991)