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THE beginning of a new academical year is one of those periods of sudden change which must leave its mark for good or bad on every university and college in the land. Well-known faces of those who have been prominent in work or sport are missing. New recruits are taking, with halting steps, their first lessons in the drill which is soon to become so familiar. In a few days they will be undergoing their “baptism of fire” in struggles wider and keener than any in which they have yet been engaged; and in which each, according as he bears himself, must either add to or diminish, be it by ever so little, the position which his college holds in the eyes of the world. At such a period we naturally halt for a moment, and before we face the future, cast our eyes backward.
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On the Characteristics of a University. Nature 60, 598–601 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060598a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/060598a0