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“The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society”
“it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization”
Du Bois, from the Atlanta chapter of “Souls.” As a statement of the purpose of the university it’ll do to be going on with
He follows up with “Such an institution the South of to-day sorely needs. She has religion, earnest, bigoted:—religion that on both sides the Veil often omits the sixth, seventh, and eighth commandments, but substitutes a dozen supplementary ones.” 
fuck em up Burghardt
