The delicate thing about th... by Richard Hofstadter, an American Historian

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“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.”

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Richard Hofstadter

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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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