Knowledge in the Guidance of Communities

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Excerpt from Knowledge in the Guidance of Communities: An Address by Albert Shaw at the Commencement Exercises of the University of Cincinnati, June 14, 1913In the first place, the university had to change its own point of view. It had to believe more fully in the universal mission of knowledge, and to find out how to make science and culture democratic without making them superficial. The process has been a gradual one, but it has beenthorough-going and is now well-nigh complete. Univer sities are no longer exclusive affairs, and academic scholar shap has ceased to be the mark of a separate Brahminical caste.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.