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MORE than one discussion at the recent meeting of the British Association at Nottingham raised questions about the fundamental purpose and functions of the university in modern life which went far beyond the immediate practical problems under discussion. Some of these problems—for example, the part of the university in education for citizenship—had been raised at the conference arranged by the Association for Education in Citizenship at Ashridge in July, while since the Nottingham meeting a lively attack on the inadequacy of the universities in regard to adult education has been delivered by Prof. L. Hogben in a paper "Education for an Age of Plenty" at the conference of the British Institute of Adult Education at Cambridge.
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The University in Modern Life. Nature 140, 987–989 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140987a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/140987a0