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ONE of the most impressive passages in the recent report of the University Grants Committee is that in which attention is directed to the opportunity of service before the universities to-day in training the right type of leader, competent to think strenuously about great issues of right and wrong, liberty and government, and to bring to the grave problems of to-day minds richly informed and unsleeping in the exercise of critical intelligence, and imaginatively alive to the human issues underlying the decisions they are called upon to make. In an age when appeals to mass hysteria often appear to be more successful than appeals to reason, it is of the utmost importance that a university training should enhance a man's equipment not only as a skilled worker but also as a member of society and a human being.
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Research and Teaching in Universities. Nature 138, 303–305 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138303a0
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