13 - concern. All of us are very much aware of the struggle between the communist countries and what we like to call the "free world". However, much of the world's population exists in countries which have not yet committed themselves either to communism or to a way of life more closely approaching our own. In these countries and indeed in much of the free world, freedom exists only in the most limited sense. These people are still captives of hunger and privation, ignorance, disease, and still largely dependent upon the energies of man unsupplemented by the modern tools that multiply his productive capacity. The population explosion, touched off by medical achievements in extending the life span and agricultural progress in reducing hunger, finds nations like India struggling with all the means at its command merely to maintain the existing standard of living, already the lowest in the world. I am personally convinced that an awakened world will not long tolerate these conditions without experimenting with new economic doctrines, and the doctrine untested and untried and, unfortunately, also not understood in all of its implications, is communism. Here is the challenge of the Space Age! Can a civilization clever enough to develop the means to destroy itself convert and apply the knowledge that it has or can acquire to free its population from physical hardship to pursue as free men the finer things of life in a world peace? Certainly we can say that Stanford has recorded some solid progress on both the academic and financial fronts in the last twenty years. If our assignment were the same now as it was then, we might accept this status as good enough. But in the circumstances that we face, we cannot rest content where we are. Certainly in the academic field there is ample evidence that "success begets success", and among the great private institutions of the country support funds seem to flow most readily to those that on the surface seem to need them least. However, more careful analysis will reveal that the funds flow to those who are doing the best job both in recording academic