The Meaning of an University
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Excerpt from The Meaning of an University: An Inaugural Address Delivered to the Students of University College Aberystwyth on the 20th of October, 1911 Mr. Principal, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured by your invitation to address you at the opening of another session, and I trust that my choice of subject does not alarm you. I offered to speak to you on the Meaning of a University, but it is no part of my purpose to spend time on the definition of familiar terms, or to attempt to extract surprising lessons from the etymology of a word that is in daily use. My interest in the subject is of another kind. By the accidents of life I have had to do with many Universities in many places; in London, where they examine without misgiving or remorse; in India, where the University of London found a congenial soil for multiplying all its worst vices; at Oxford and Cambridge, where Time and old Custom and the delights of communal life have hallowed even the frailties of these ancient institutions, so that their very faults have something pleasant and respectable about them; in Scotland, where the Universities are truly national, and prepare the chosen youth of the nation for work in the learned professions; last, and not least significant, in the newer provincial Universities of England, Manchester and Liverpool, where the activities of a University have been recognized as essential to a full-grown municipal civilization. With all these I have had to do, and I should be very dull and incurious if I had never troubled myself to ask what purposes they have in common, and what is the meaning of a University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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