When is a research subject beaten to death? Never?
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At a conference put on by the Texas Public Policy Foundation -- whose recommendations for restructuring higher education include emphasizing teaching and less research -- senior fellow Ronald Trowbridge told the audience that 21,674 scholarly articles were published on William Shakespeare from 1980 to 2006, and asked:
“Do we need the 21,675th?”
University of Texas President William Powers Jr. reply, as cited by The Statesman:
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“It’s very hard to know today what (research) is going to be valuable in the future.”
He has called on the Board of Regents to protect research on the Austin campus.
