“So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.”
“The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.”
“The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.”
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