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Changing Assumptions and Expectations

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This is the first stone of the University of Melbourne, instituted in the honour of God for establishing young men in philosophy, literature and piety; cultivating the talent of youth, fostering the arts, extending the bounds of science. Inscription on the foundation stone, University of Melbourne, 3 July, 1854.

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    Madeleine Mattarozzi Laming

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Laming, M.M. (2012). Changing Assumptions and Expectations. In: Laming, M.M. (eds) The New Inheritors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-621-2_3

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