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The Barry Gross Memorial Award
Acceptance Address: Shades of Leo the Great and Ajax
Candace de Russy,Trustee of the State University of New York and treasurer of the National Association of Scholars
I thank the NAS for honoring me with the Barry Gross Award. Since the organization s founding, Ive been privileged to fight alongside this band of serious and courageous intellectuals in an effort to preserve higher education. So seminal a role does the academy play in promoting proper civilized values that it is no exaggeration to say that our struggle will be, in the end, an effort to save civilization itself.
What a privilege to have entered the...