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As if extending his famed father's remarks, James Waterhouse Angell, 38, Harvardman and orthodox professor of economics at Columbia, last week voiced even deeper concern for contemporary U.S. Education at Columbia's commencement: "Down to the present day the universities, save where overwhelming force has crushed them, have remained rightly jealous of their hard-won privileges, proud of their part in the world's history, and almost fanatically consecrated to those ideals of spiritual and intellectual integrity for which they have so long fought. . . . Particularly is this true in this country today. We are in the midst of the most ominous economic, political and social up heavals which we have known in more than half a century. Self-interest, partisanship and deceit have never been more powerful, the confusion of issues never more profound. In such a situation, the universities and their members have an all-important part to play. If our universities of today stand for anything at all, they stand not only for knowledge, but also for intellectual and spiritual integrity. . . ."