The View From the Castle: Receiving an honorary degree at Cambridge prompts some reflections on education today

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Summary

Receiving an honorary degree from Cambridge prompts Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley to comment on modern education. Ripley states his faith in superior eductional institutions and decries the idea that such institutions are unfair in an egalitarian society.

Subject

University of Cambridge

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

Photograph included.

Contained within

Smithsonian Vol. 5, no. 7 (Journal)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

October 1974

Topic

  • Education
  • Castle View
  • Education, Higher

Physical description

p. 6

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