Today I can oblige. The university has not yet quite
been born. It springs from the brain of Mr. St. John Barbe Baker, Founder of the Men of the Trees (" a society of earth healers who are working to create a universal tree sense and encourage all to plant, protect and love trees everywhere "). Mr. Baker sees the Sahara as a waste and doesn't think it ought to be.
The latest annual report of the Men of the Trees quotes several utterances of Mr. Baker's. For example : " On this first day of spring. March 21st, 1952, in this Park Suite of the Dorchester Hotel [very nice, too], overlooking London's Hyde Park, I proclaim a GREEN FRONT against the deserts of the world. . . . A University of the Sahara will soon be founded in which there will be a Faculty of Bio-Sylvics, welcoming research students from every country in the world." You see the thing is as good as done.
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