The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
the external demands upon academia: Refers to those several demands made upon any educational system: First, the societal demand for mass-produced, guaranteed, interchangeable 'products', i.e. the graduates of the educational system; and secondly, serving the interests and ideals of the various social "classes"; while thirdly, continuing the opportunity to perpetuate a tradition of "competition for competition's sake", inherited largely from eighteenth-century Jesuit colleges which made emulation the favored tool of an education designed for aristocratic youth. However, here we have another "tool" of Lucifer, in actuality, where the Negativity of competition has been a case of Lucifer "leading the faithful" to God, in this case the Jesuits acting the part of Lucifer.