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Ronald Ridley

Radical Students by Alan Barcan & The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor by Raymond Priestly (ed. Ronald Ridley)

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December 2002-January 2003, no. 247
Michael Crennan reviews 'Radical Students: The old left at Sydney University' by Alan Barcan and 'The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor: University of Melbourne' by Raymond Priestly (ed. Ronald Ridley)

Many thousands of undergraduates have walked under the stilts of the Raymond Priestley Building, which forms part of Melbourne University’s great wind tunnel, with no thought of the person commemorated by its name. He was, in fact, a remarkable man. His four years as Vice-Chancellor (1935–38) emerge in extraordinary detail and intimacy, thanks to this edition of his journals.

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