The founder of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Abraham Flexner, wrote in 1930: “…a university, like all other human institutions (…) is not outside, but inside the general social fabric of a given era. It is not something apart, something historic, something that yields as little as possible to forces and influences that are more or less new. It is on the contrary (…) an expression of the age, as well as an influence operating upon both present and future.”
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