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Touch of shame: a social need by Professor Siri Gunasinghe (Address made at the General Convocation (2002) of the University of Peradeniya) We have a history of some sixty years of university learning, without
counting those years when only a few privileged members of our society
were able to benefit from higher learning abroad. The first 50 years of
Peradeniya (which this special occasion marks), though not a very long
time in the life of a university, is, nevertheless, long enough to assess
what benefits we, as products of this institution, have reaped during
those years. We have got our degrees. That is good. But we must ask
ourselves if that is all we have got, and if we should be satisfied with
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