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PROBLEMATICS

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In it are 2 NAILS-one on: 3

the Topand one on the Bottom in positions shown

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from the Sides, WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE SHORTEST PIECE OF WIRE JOINING THE TWO NAILS?.

Allow for fastening (NO BORING ALLOWED)

ONE and TWO o'clock do the hands of a CLOCK,

form a RIGHT ANGLE?

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UNIVERSITIES

Sir Roger Lumley, Governor of the scholar's fairness of thought. Bombay, in his speech at the open- ing of the Inter-Universities Con- ference in Bombay, said:~~

ITS

those who sought The University must first be a same is that estab

from school of character

which a modern Univer benefits flow freely to the commu- name and reputati nity and to the world at large. With The developmen

I shall venture to stress some of such a leavening of character the principle is emine what seem to me the fundamentals knowledge and the learning, which a country like I 18th Apr. of the University ideal which could a University exists to disseminate, tances are great only be abandoned with great loss, achieve their best and fullest pur- cation, of simila It was the English poet, Milton, who pose.

a certain mark is in one of his prose works, spoke of In these changing conditions let is the geat teache "beholding the bright countenance us be sure what a University should attention of all w of truth in the quiet and still air of be and for what it should exist. It in his subject, a delightful studies," In these words must, I would say, remain a seat of creates the tradit best and learning and culture, a centre for important. Some he expressed one of the most satisfying qualities of the co-ordinating knowledge and the mean will be fou academic opportunity the joy of results of learning in its broadest how scholars from learning and the detachment which sense. This means not primarily in ed in the Midd it provides from passing distrac- the immediate practical application Universities at P tions.

of knowledge and learning to trade, to listen to the le This calm and peaceful quality of industry, commerce, the professions nowned French an University culture still aurvices, al- and public life, but in the subtler or how Cuvier in though, with the stress of modern and finer effects of a wider and more day, and Lister life, even Universities have to work comprehensive outlook on things. at a higher pressure comparable with the acceleration of the business and

But the commercial world.

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SCHOOLS OF CHARACTER

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later, created schoo reputation by the and soundness of

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MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES The modern University is the the direct descendant of the

SANCT Universities of the Middle Ages— The Unversity institutions which, under the name preserves what ha of "studia generalia," began with seeks to adapt e the object of bringing' famous teach- too much violend ers together to disseminate thereby beneficial in the d the learning and scholarship of the from the world of time which otherwise were threaten- In the past, on

ed

with destruction amidst con- occasion, when ti ditions where, apart from religion, the time was thr respect for the higher things of the dissolution, or by mind was not greatly appreciated. invasion by force

The virtues of these Medieval were sanctuaries institutions still have their value: learning found re they are perhaps vital to any true they preserved f It seems to me that in everything conception of the University of to only the knowled that the University does it must not day.

an earlier day, be forgotten that, first and foremost, The Medieval University indeed structure on whic Its success is to be judged by the was, first of all, an association of eventually tookė... manner in which it produces men teachers, the learned men of the proved their final worthy of the scholar's ideal and of day giving of their learning to I would ventur

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