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Nominally, it is an annual report that President Butler of Columbia University has submitted to his trustees. Actually he has presented a world conspectus which is, at the very least, sober and comes very near to being pessimistic. Reversing President Butler's order of presentation, we find that we live today under a new-paganism in which individual appetite or impulse has replaced the belief in law, whether in Heaven or on earth. For this state of affairs the universities, according to President Butler, must bear their share of guilt. And from the universities the lusting after false gods...
...silly position of splendid isolation. On the other hand the time has hot come when America will surrender her individuality to the extent proposed in the Wilson Covenant. Between these two extremes she must smite her path. Senator Harding has realized this, and results will show that most sober-thinking citizens agree with...
...fallibility of the familiar. It must teach us that simply because we are accustomed to social conceptions, we ought not to be unwilling to constantly test and question these theories to see if they stand the ultimate test of permanent serviceability. The University, therefore, must insist on tolerance and sober discussion; must fight against omniscience and arrogance...
...representatives of most of the Protestant denominations, was free entirely from the suspicion of sectarianism, and was narrow only in so far as it emphasized almost exclusively the work in foreign fields. It stimulated serious thinking, and the natural result of serious thinking is a quiet, sober, sensible, even religious attitude toward all problems...
...considered. The stretch between Wilfred Humphries being allowed to speak at Harvard and encouraged to speak at Harvard is not a long one. We do not wish it thought that the University believes in such tactics as his, for it is not true. We would not object to a sober and intellectual discussion of Russian affairs, both from admirers and critics, but we do object to unbalanced speeches from avowed propagandists...