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    Monash University

    Under the Australian Constitution education is a responsibility of the States, and for many years each state had one university located in its capital city. Victoria’s University of Melbourne was founded in 1853 ...

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    Marathwada University

    Marathwada University was established as a teaching and affiliating university at Aurangabad by an Act of the Bombay legislature (Act No. 39 of 1958) that received the assent of the Governor of Bombay on 5 May 19...

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    The University of Nigeria

    This is the story of a dream. It is a dream that turned into reality between 1960 and 1964. It involved many ideas. Among them were the restoration of the dignity of man; the rediscovery of a rich cultural histor...

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    The East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology

    The universities of this subcontinent were first established in the latter part of the 19th century in the pattern of the University of London. Universities set up in the 1920’s were residential institutions and ...

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    The University of South Florida

    Florida is one of the fastest growing states in the nation, both because it shares in the national increase in birth rate, and because there is a constant average of 3,500 people per week migrating to Florida to ...

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    The University of York

    It has often been a matter of surprise that the city of York has had to wait so long for a university. One of the oldest and one of the most beautiful cities in England, York has a tradition of learning that goe....

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    York University

    York University is located in Metropolitan Toronto, the largest city in the Province of Ontario. The province, in central Canada, has a population of close to 6,500,000, and is generally regarded as the wealthies...

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    The University of California at Riverside

    The University of California at Riverside is comprehensible only as an integral part of the distinguished state-wide University of California with its parent campus at Berkeley, which has just celebrated its nine...

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    Some Reflections on New Universities

    It is sometimes said that, of all our social institutions, the university is the one most resistant to change. Indeed, the university has frequently been compared to the Church in this respect; both being consid....

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    The University of Sussex

    The ‘modern’ universities of England and Wales, which followed after a gap of four to five centuries the medieval foundations of their predecessors, owe their origins almost without exception to local initiative....

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)

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    The University of East Anglia

    When one stands on the balcony of the Norwich City Hall one cannot fail to be impressed by the prospect of Norwich, with cathedral spire, castle keep and Guildhall, standing in sociable relations, symbols of Chur...

    Murray G. Ross in New Universities in the Modern World (1966)