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...building possible, to the German Emperor who has encouraged the movement with gifts of money and works of Germanic art, an expression of gratitude is due. With feelings of relief we note the passing of the unfortunate Germanic Museum, and with gratitude we receive one more thing to teach us that a university is a place where the characteristics and thought of the peoples of the world are mingled, an institution which owes the country and the world a great debt...
...therefore obtain the advice of almost any prominent metropolitan newspaper man. The Pulitzer bequest is to be used to start a school of journalism at Columbia along entirely new lines. These departments are not liable to the single criticism which is sometimes thrown at our business school: that it teaches a man to head a business, but does not help him much in the inkwell-cleaning job to which he usually falls heir when he graduates; for the courses in journalism not only teach a man to become an excellent editor-in-chief, but make him familiar with...
...main aims, the selection of students and the selection of teachers. Its object is to encourage the best students in order that the most able, on entering the school, shall encounter only men of their own calibre. For, as in every institution of learning, the character of the teaching depends as much on the ability of those who learn as on the excellence of those who teach. The second aim, made far more feasible by the growing McKay fund, is to accept as professors only men of real note. Harvard University was the first in America to take up applied...
...fathers and older brothers for ten College generations. How many of us will be able, at three score years and ten, to produce a record so fraught with true human achievement? Professor Palmer's life is an example of quiet, sane, effectiveness. May he live long to teach that life at a time when the tendency is too often toward noise, hurry, and mediocrity...
...China speaking at Harvard said that he was ashamed to find no course in this University on so great a nation, a nation whose inhabitants form nearly one fourth of the population of the globe. There are thousands of Americans who go to China to preach and to teach. But America apparently thinks she has nothing to learn...