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THE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge presided at a public meeting held in the Regent House on November 23 to support the cause of Greece in the War. He was accompanied by the Greek Minister, the Provost of King's College (Mr. J. T. Sheppard), Sir Frederick Maurice (principal of Queen Mary College, London), the regius professor of Greek (Prof. D. S. Robertson), the Lord Lieutenant (Mr. C. R. W. Adeane) and the Mayor of Cambridge (Mr. E. O. Brown). The Vice-Chancellor (Mr. E. A. Benians, master of St. John's College) spoke of the sympathy and regard with which Greece is regarded in Great Britain, and particularly in the ancient universities of the country. “Wherever universities exist,” he said, “they live and work in a light first kindled on the soil of Greece. To that source they trace the freedom of mind and spirit, without which they cannot fulfil their true functions.”
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The Universities' Debt to Greece. Nature 146, 742 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146742a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146742a0