“It was to be free from almost all the tiresome restraints—“ red tape” was the word its supporters used—which have hitherto hampered research in this country.”

“It was to be free from almost all the tiresome restraints—“ red tape” was the word its supporters used—which have hitherto hampered research in this country.” — That Hideous Strength: by C. S. Lewis (1943) The book literally starts with a competition between Oxford and a fictional university about who gets to host a “trans-humanist” research organization.