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A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society_It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.
John Henry Newman The Idea of a University
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A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society_It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.
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The Idea of a University

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