At the present time the number of trained academic women is perhaps large enough to support the frequently expressed belief that no lowering of academic standards can result from the requirement that women be proportionately represented on faculties. Doubtless it will eventually be possible to say the same thing of the disadvantaged groups, the sooner the better. When that time comes, the anomaly of prescribed social or sexual representation in the life of the mind will perhaps seem necessary to no one. Lionel Trilling, The 1972 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities