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THE difficulty of accommodating all students in the existing Czechoslovak universities has led to the opening of a new one at Olomouc in north Moravia. The ceremony took place on February 21 after a special train from Prague had brought President Beneš, members of the Czechoslovak cabinet, Sir Phillip Nichols (the British Ambassador) and other diplomatic personalities to Olomouc. The new university is named after Palacky, the Czechoslovak historian so long associated with both the Charles University and the National Museum of Prague; and in his speech Dr. Beneš referred to the fact that Prague's university had existed for almost six hundred years, and that the name of Palacky could appropriately be given to the new university in recognition of the historian's cultural work for the nation a hundred years ago. He said that the importance of education is fully realized in Czechoslovakia, where it is vital for a small nation to be in the forefront of progress. The immediate task is to overtake the years lost through the War and the German occupation.
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New University at Olomouc. Nature 159, 328–329 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159328c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159328c0