Eduard C. Lindeman

By 1934 in the United States, foundation funding exceeded federal spending on education, with the majority of it, 61%, being targeted at higher education.

The educationalist Eduard Lindemann wrote in 1936 that those who live in anticipation of receiving foundation grants are the more servile.

Indeed, it is hard to see how academics in receipt of major grant funding can take any critical distance from the centres of power in their research.

During World War Two, scientific research became heavily subordinated to the war effort.