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The concept of the university

21 June 2018

5:32 PM

21 June 2018

5:32 PM

David Long writes:

In the December of 2001, a group of about 70  past students gathered in the St John’s College Chapel at the University of Queensland to pay their last respects to their teacher, Dr Richard Staveley.

Dick Staveley had returned to Australia in 1967 from the United States where he had taught for ten years after being awarded his PhD in political science at the University of Chicago.

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