After a good many years of taking criticism by distinguished visiting scholars from Britain and Europe, Philosopher Douglas N. Morgan of Northwestern University decided it was time to complain. Last week, in a letter to the Manchester Guardian, he talked back. Fond as the U.S. is of visitors, said he, too many"come to America armed with a conviction that we are infants, that our academic degrees not earned at Oxford or Cambridge are travesties, and that even our graduate students are merely overgrown addicts of football and television.
"Frankly . . . we do resent being treated as moderately...
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