The Future of Tradition Looks to the Past

"Universality"

This editorial for the orientation edition reflects on the University's past and future, coming to the conclusion that the "traditions" worth saving are the ones of more universal worth. The Cavalier Daily, 4 September 1974

Hereford's Inaugural Address

After the tumultuos Sixties, Hereford outlines a plan whose key component is to strive for the end of divisions. While defending the idea of a university as a place for all ideas to flourish, his speech is clearly lacking in the vision that inspired Shannon's inaugural or the urgency in Shannon's May Days Address. 9 October 1974

Shannon's May Days Address