MODERN UNIVERSITIES.
THEIR TRUE FUNCTION, BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT, TIMES —SYDNEY SX7N SPECIAL CABLES. - (Received September 16, 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 15. In an address to tho British Association, Sir Alfred Hopkinson, commenting on the modern university, hoped they would get rid of the pestilential heresy that universities existed merely to give degrees. They should remember their function was to train men and women for commerce and industry, as well as for the professions.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144199, 16 September 1913, Page 3
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74MODERN UNIVERSITIES. Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144199, 16 September 1913, Page 3
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