Volume 1, Number 6 · November 14, 1963
L. A. of the Intellect
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
The Uses of the University
by Clark Kerr
Harvard, 125 pp., $2.75
This short book contains the text of the Godkin Lectures for 1963 which were given at Harvard by the President of the University of California, an institution which, according to the dust jacket, had 'more than 58,000 students on seven campuses.' President Kerr's subject is the operation and support of such protean institutions whose social functions, various though they are, barely include and surely do not emphasize, the traditional purposes of a university: that is, liberal study, the cultivation of a social responsible intellectual elite, and a sense of continuity with the culture of the past.
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