Memory is the thread of personal identity, history of public identity.
—Richard Hofstadter
A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
—Richard Hofstadter
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
—Richard Hofstadter
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