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Open Forum 41 (1979) FOUD049H

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(David Grugeon) The ceremony at which 
  the charter was actually presented...

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..took place at the Royal Society. Everyone 
  connected with the project...

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..was present; Harold Wilson, Jennie Lee, Vice
   Chancellors and politicians.

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The occasion took on a mood of academic 
  ponderousness which gave no...

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..hint of the startling innovations contained 
  in the traditional-looking...

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..document that was presented to Sir Peter 
  Venables as Chairman...

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..of the Planning Committee. Then Geoffrey 
  Crowther was installed as...

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..our first Chancellor, an appropriate
   choice with his famous report...

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..that noted how many have missed out 
  on higher education.

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Geoffrey Crowther: The first and most 
  urgent task before us is to cater...

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..for the many thousands of people fully 
  capable of a higher education,

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who for one reason or another, do not 
  get it, or do not...

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..get as much of it as they can turn to 
  advantage or...

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..as they discover, sometimes too late
  , that they need.

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Only in recent years have we come to realise 
  how many such people...

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..there are, and how large are the gaps in 
  educational provision...

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..through which they can fall. The existing 
  system for all its...

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..its great expansion misses and leaves aside 
  a great unused...

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..reservoir of human talent and potential.