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completely free of having to depend on direct tax dollars

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from the state or from the nation. Now, there are very

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few institutions in that fortunate position any more,

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with the tremendous Federal funds going into research

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and to support of higher education, but one of the long-

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time characteristic marks have defined private institu-

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tions is that they have been completely free in way out

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approaches and research activities, without the fear of

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their money being curtailed because it is in fact coming

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from the students in tuition and from the endowments that

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have been given by individuals and invested income for

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the institution.

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I am not sure that if we made more than a

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token provision of State funds for this purpose, that

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we might injure some of the better institutions.

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THE CHAIRLADY: Dr. Kuhn, as I understand it,

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the regents would propose that the present legislative

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autonomy be made constitutional for the University of

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Maryland.

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DR. KUHN: That is pretty largely what I

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understand.