Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library neared completion potent U. S. pacifist groups, spokesmanned by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, finally persuaded Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University, that the Warren-Mercier inscription was "likely to breed hatred." Soon rector and architect openly quarrelled. Dramatically Monsignor Ladeuze brandished a cablegram beneath the slightly beaked patrician nose of Architect Warren...
Editor & Publisher, passionate professional champion of the daily press, Argus-eyed foe of publicity-seekers, last fortnight attacked Educator Nicholas Murray Butler for allowing Columbia University to conceal somewhere about its curriculum "a course in press agentry." Editor & Publisher viewed with alarm the growing profession of ''public relations counsel." It warned, editorially: "This is the business that Ivy L. Lee, Edward L. Bernays. William B. Shearer...
...Butler had nothing to say in reply. The course, listed in the Columbia bulletin as "Organization of Public Opinion," was given for the first time last year, taught by George A. Hastings. Editor & Publisher had found other occasions to deplore this course. In the same issue that called Dr. Butler to account was printed a letter from Professor Hastings, sarcastic, grateful...
...Editor & Publisher: Many thanks for your frequent editorial comments on the course on The Organization of Public Opinion at Columbia. Of course they misrepresent entirely the purpose, content, and spirit of the course, but your fulminations against it have attracted students both this year and last. 'We are advertised by our loving friends...
Another thing that made journalists snort at Columbia last week was the annual report of Dr. John William Cunliffe, director of Columbia's School of Journalism. Wrote he: "Reporting and copy-reading (if the terms are strictly interpreted) are young men's jobs and most of those engaged in them get out into executive or editorial positions as soon as they can; very few wish to stay as reporters or copyreaders all their lives; the strain is too great...