THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN NATION
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FOOTNOTE 5
The original model of the university was radically different from this later corporate and hierarchic "pyramid." The old European (and American) university could better be thought of not as a pyramid at all but as a group of gathered cottages or small houses, some perhaps finer than others but none significantly higher. It should be mentioned that by the beginning of the final quarter of the Twentieth Century, from the Late Preliminary on through the Middle Ante-Penultimate, very close to all memory of the original role and purpose of faculty had been lost, even by those faculty themselves who remained inside what was still popularly referred to as "academia."
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