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YALE and Harvard Universities have sent a telegram to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge conveying a tribute to the “dynamic courage of Great Britain” and stating that an important aspect of that courage is expressed “in the determination of your scholars to pursue their researches in the spirit of Milton's Seraph, ‘Unshaken, unseduced, un-terrified’”. The Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge have replied, sending “grateful acknowledgments to Harvard and Yale for their tribute to the resolution of this country”. They go on to say: “The cause of liberty and learning, now eclipsed over most of Europe, is nowhere better understood than in the great and historic institutions from which these Christmas greetings come. The more profoundly do we appreciate their noble and moving recognition of our endeavour, together with the other Universities of Great Britain, to maintain the continuity of scholarship and to keep, even in these days, the standards of knowledge unimpaired and the sources of truth unsoiled.”
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The Universities: An American Tribute. Nature 147, 53–54 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147053f0
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