I Think He's Concerned That the Best Practical Benefit of a University Was to Be Impracticble

An ivory tower innis wrote, is essential if a universal point of view is to be attained. He was not just an unengaged scholar who wanted to do his research and be left alone. He wanted to have power within the institution. John watson says, innis wa extremely conscious of questions of power, and quite willing to exercise it. he fought for a canadian control of the university.