By C. F. Volney
ISBN-10: 1854772465
ISBN-13: 9781854772466
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One was that the Centre was right from the beginning a#racting interest from the very top levels of academic talent. Sutherland for example would become Lord Sutherland of Houndswood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, Principal of Edinburgh University and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; and Alan Ryan, who in Donaldson’s words, ‘was knocking about with us in Childers Street in the very earliest days of the Centre’ was to become Warden of New College, Oxford. The other was that the Centre had begun already to display an impressive capacity to range widely in the virtually boundless field of the humanities.
But it of course differs to some extent from the suggestion I made to you that the Centre might concentrate upon the rather broader theme of the impact of European culture upon Asia and the Pacific and the reverse process. However, he supposed that it might be ‘as well to start on the narrower topic . . ’6 Gra#an in fact hoped that the HRC might develop as an Australian Studies Centre. He suggested as someone pre-eminently qualified in both European and Pacific fields the author of European Vision and the South Pacific, the great Marxist art historian and classicist Bernard Smith.
The University of London’s Warburg Institute, with its own self-contained library, has been cited as a partial model for the HRC,’ Donaldson continued; and ‘the Vice-Chancellor and the Centre’s Commi#ee . . agreed that “The quality of the library collection more than any other single factor would a#ract scholars to the Centre” . . D. 23 But the [University] Librarian argued strongly against the establishment of a separate collection of books housed within the HRC . . er some debate, this argument was accepted.