Finally I will say a few words in regard to the immediate future. As The Idea of a University Mr. 0. M. Green said in effect When your President did me the honour of inviting me to address you I was in no little doubt as to having anything worth my saying and your hearing. It has been said that none of us are infallible, not even the youngest, and that, if it means anything at all, means that the older we get the less inclined fare we to dogmatize. T took comfort from the fact that, as Chinese, you would listen courteously and as university men you are accustomed to listen patiently even though—I speak with deference to your teachers—the subject may not be very interesting.
That phrase I have just used raises some thoughts: What is a University?- What is a University man? By its derivation a university is obviously a place for Jat men, and where every branch
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