Quote by Richard Hofstadter
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed cha

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. – Richard Hofstadter

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