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THE leading article in NATURE of April 27 opened with a paragraph which purported to give the reasons for university authorities encouraging their staffs and students to do research work:—“the principal reason, especially applicable to the students, probably being that research is excellent educational training and therefore falls within the sphere of the primary activity of universities. A secondary reason, especially applicable to the staffs, is that research may produce results of great public benefit and is, to that extent, not inconsistent with the reason for existence of universities” (italics mine).
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MASSON, J. The Universities and Research. Nature 145, 855–856 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145855a0
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