{"id":377,"date":"2013-03-13T18:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl?page_id=377"},"modified":"2017-09-06T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:23:02","slug":"steun-universiteit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/sponsors\/steun-universiteit","title":{"rendered":"Support university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Carel-Stolker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-381\" alt=\"Carel Stolker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Carel-Stolker.jpg\" width=\"83\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Without ambition, it won't work!\u2019 Dutch bridge and Leiden University have that in common. In bridge, the Netherlands managed to become world champions last year. I believe that we, as Leiden University, have a societal duty to strive for excellence, to reach for the world's top. In legal studies \u2013 my own field \u2013 we have a foundation for this that goes back to Hugo de Groot, a scholar who is once again extremely relevant in today's globalizing world.<br \/>\nIn the beta sciences, we experienced a golden age in the late nineteenth century with Nobel Prizes for Kamerlingh Onnes, Hendrik Lorentz, and Willem Einthoven. I don't think it's a coincidence that all three attended the Hogere Burgerschool (HBS), established in 1863, a type of school that paid significantly more attention to exact sciences than the gymnasium and served as a breeding ground for an ambitious middle class. I am convinced that it is precisely from a close-knit, interconnected, and simultaneously outward-looking Leiden university community that we are capable of making leaps in our knowledge again and again.<br \/>\n\u201cMy playing is learning, my learning is playing\u201d is the well-known line of poetry by Hieronymus van Alphen, also a Leiden alumnus. I don't know if bridge falls under that, but I wholeheartedly support Leiden student bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Mr. Carel Stolker<br \/>\nRector Magnificus &amp; Chairman<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Zonder ambitie gaat het niet!\u2019 Dat hebben het Nederlandse bridge en de Leidse universiteit gemeen. In bridge wist Nederland vorig jaar wereldkampioen te worden. Ik vind dat wij als Leidse&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/sponsors\/steun-universiteit\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<i class=\"icon-right\"><\/i><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> of Steun universiteit<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":630,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions\/952"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studentenbridgeleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}