Also, one of the first things that Russell noticed about him was that he had private money, and that offered him some assurance that W was capable of being an academic.
Even at the state universities in the US, this ethic still lingers. Conference funding is usually only a fraction of the cost. I still recall observing a leading historian inquire eagerly whether a "De" in the name of some mentor of his interlocutor was an aristocratic particle.
Well, with industrialization, we shall eat cake while they browse the Almanac de Gotha. And of course, with industrialization, another dangerous social set pops up, and they're a bit more difficult to handle. Despite the fact that they're occasionally obsessed with owning the cherry orchard of their childhood.
Gently down the stream. Free-minded, like all of us Americans should be. The long months reading Dewey had an effect, I think.