nor does it belong to all those catering and support staff who might well say, in Brechtian vein, ‘first there is lunch, then there is studying’. Universities belong as much to those figures represented on the façade at the University of Birmingham as they do to those whom Edmund Burke called ‘the generations yet unborn’, just as this particular university belongs as much to the first-year student who today begins one of the most exciting or most worrying, but anyway most intense, experiences of her life as it does to the shades of Hugo Grotius and Johan Huizinga. If there is any value in
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