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THE congress of the seventy universities, of the British Empire began its official programme in London on July 1 and continued its work in Edinburgh on July 6–11. On July 3 in Guildhall—“he centre of the Empire in London, which has been for centuries a financial, and is this day an educational clearing-house of the world”—H.R.H. the Prince of Wales in his address of welcome as president of the Congress observed that “one of the things the world requires most to-day is organised knowledge and the means of distributing it”. This truth crystallised in a sentence world necessities in a time of crisis. Pope said a little learning, not a little knowledge, was a dangerous thing; and assuredly in these days it is not learning which the peoples of the world require. They have enough of that from the popular press and the politician.
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Congress of Universities of the Empire, 1931. Nature 128, 158–159 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128158a0
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