Universities under Conditions of Duress: Question and Answer Session

Could you explain why the Protestant God is the third presiding deity of the liberal arts college? ALAN RYAN: Because the Protestant God is the one that said every man was to be his own priest, was to read the Bible for himself, and was to make his own way to salvation. [...] you spoke about the continuity from the GDR bureaucratic university system into the current system, and I wondered whether you could expand on what you meant by that.