We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-… — H. G. Wells

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

H. G. WellsAuthor · English · 1866 – 1946

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