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“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.”
 
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Name:   Richard Hofstadter
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Aug 6, 1916
 
Date of Death:   Oct 24,  1970
 
Profession:   Historian
 
 
 
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