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IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY, THE IBD

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
10 / 1992
9780268011505
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'The Idea of a University [is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman?s] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none. . . . [O]nly one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the first reading of this book has been called an ?epoch? in the life of a college man, why Walter Pater thought it ?the perfect handling of a theory?, why the historian G. M. Young has ranked it with Aristotle?s Ethics among the most valuable of all works on the aim of Education, or why Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch told his students at Cambridge that ?of all the books written in these hundred years there is perhaps none you can more profitably thumb and ponder.?' -from the introduction by Martin J. Svaglic

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