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The Godkin Lectures
The Harvard lecture series, established in 1903, at which Clark Kerr delivered the three April 1963 addresses that introduced the multiversity and became The Uses of the University.
The Godkin Lectures at Harvard — named for the founding editor of The Nation, E.L. Godkin — were established in 1903 to bring distinguished figures to discuss the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen. Clark Kerr's April 1963 lectures, delivered in the Harvard Memorial Church while he served as president of the University of California, introduced the term multiversity and produced the book that remains the foundational analytical text on American higher education. The three addresses — The Idea of a Multiversity, The Realities of the Federal Grant University, and The Future of the City of Intellect — laid out a diagnosis of the modern research university whose analytical precision has outlasted every subsequent transformation of the institution it described.
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Kerr delivered the lectures at a specific moment of American confidence. The University of California had tripled its enrollment under his presidency. Federal research funding was flowing into the