| Summary: | Europe; Hoffmann, Rosemary Commencement Remarks Dr. Mason G. Daly Heidelberg, 28 May 1967 Director European Division University of Maryland A university may have once prided itself in being the quiet citadel of learning, designed to formally educate the few and the young, but the modern American university has had to face the challenge of upholding traditions and values while it moves dynamically within its society. It found that it must be in the market place, at the space launching pad, in the developing country, in the jungle and on the ice-cap, merged into every sphere of human endeavor. Especially the American university must be with Americans wherever they are in the world. And that is why we are here today, in solemn convocation in an historic setting rich with tradition, with robed dignitaries and students drawing upon hundreds of years of European tradition for the regalia and ritual of this ceremony. The tradition is enriched because we are a vivid representation of how far the American university has taken its resources in order to reach mature and deserving students. We reach Americans on military enclaves in Europe and Africa and the Middle East. We reach them because the US military, as no other military in the history of the world, wishes to develop its citizen warrior with knowledge and skills that are not military in nature, but are a part of the intellectual development needed by an American in or out of uniform. The University of Maryland is here at the invitation of these overseas commands, operating with complete academic autonomy, abiding by the same university regulations and requirements on its world-wide campus which apply on its home campus. And so today, as a representative of this overseas division, I lay full claim for this class, and for this faculty, to the most important fact of academic life: the fact that we have been, as free individuals, on an unconditional search for truth. This search for truth -this educational process -can be formalized and vigorously pursued anywhere ...
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