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...were so fortunate as to be either his younger colleagues or his students that one must look for an exposition of Charles Eliot Norton, the man. Enough has been said, however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker in the interests of the University--his sketch of the life of Francis James Child. Concerning Professor Child Mr. Norton wrote these words, and they fit not only the man whom...
...however, now materializing a scheme," declared M. Maurois, "modelled on your colleges and the English ones. This is the Cite Universitaire, or 'university town', an adjunct to the Sorbonne in the form of dormifories, clubhouses, and campus, now being constructed on the outskirts of Paris...
They frowned still more approvingly and said, "Ah!" and "Oh!" and "Not really!" as Mr. Bingham continued to cite incidents of his trip to illustrate what he denounced as the snobbery, discourtesy, superciliousness, selfishness, greed, hypocrisy and effrontery of many a white missionary, military and business man in the Orient. He told of a Chinese graduate of Yale who was cursed like a coolie by a Shanghai bank clerk; of signs in a park on Chinese soil: "No Chinamen or dogs allowed." He flayed the whites, British and U. S. alike, who commit and permit such arrogance. He roused Governor...
...manner of proving the merits of a university has for some time been to cite the fame of its graduates. There are a hundred ways in which this fame is captured, and with no small amount of justice, reflected to the further glory of the institution which nurtured its early sprouts and buddings. The shadows of a president, a handful of scholars and a score of captains of industry suffice to keep almost any university in the benignant and dignified seclusion of accepted reputation...
...students' union to make certain demands from the university. They asked Mr. Wei to suggest to them what these demands should be and the Dean naturally asked them what they wanted. Their reply was that they wanted nothing. "This is not just an isolated case; I could cite numerous others. The general mass of Chinese students, as yet at least, are unaffected by Bolshevism, and anti-foreignism amongst the Chinese people is the exception rather than the rule. "I turned over the chair of mathematics at Boone to a Chinese gentleman who is a graduate of Columbia. He furthermore...