ACADEMIC FREEDOM
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, January 17,
Earl Baldwin, receiving an honorary degree at Leeds University, emphasised the importance of academic freedom and independence. Interference by the State with teaching in the universities must be resisted to the death if they were to fulfil their high functions within society, he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 11
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52ACADEMIC FREEDOM Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 11
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