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UNIVERSITIES’ ROLE SYDNEY, May 10. If universities were to produce democratic leaders it was essential that they produce men and women who were not mere technicians or specialists, Bishop Browne, of Galway (Eire) told a gathering of university students in Melbourne. Bishop Browne, said universities used to be strongholds of liberty—liberty of conscience and liberty of thought. But was that true today in the light of recent years? There was no place where universities stood so high as in Germany before the war, but as soon as Hitler came to power they capitulated. That happened because of the new concept—that a university was a place for producing technicians and specialists, and not a place where men could be cultivated in all the arts. That was the very meaning of the word “university”.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22637, 14 May 1948, Page 5
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