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Columbia University has established a compulsory Freshman course in contemporary civilization. According to President Butler, the object of instruction in this subject is to give first-year college students an outlook on the modern world as well as a point of view that will enable them better to understand and appreciate their subsequent studies...
...faculty of Columbia University, of a course of instruction in contemporary civilization, prescribed for all Freshmen. The object of this course is to give the first-year college students an outlook on the modern world, as well as a point of view that will enable them better to understand and appreciate their subsequent studies...
...words should spur the country on to demand an end to the deadlock. In his criticism he has shown the greatest discretion in realizing that anything he might say to our discredit would soon be multiplied a hundred-fold. For nations are very much like individuals who do not understand each other, and gossip soon kindles into libel and hatred. By applying the highest principles of individual to national morality, Lord Grey has set a precedent which makes permanent peace less an idealist's dream...
...question of the League of Nations attached to the Peace with Germany is too large a one, as you will readily understand, for thorough and detailed discussion in a brief letter, but I think I can state to you in broad terms the attitude which the Senate has taken in regard to the treaty...
...recognize these hardships! Let us give the team credit for all that is due them and more. Let us fill the station with a mob of cheering undergraduates to make them see that we understand what a great thing for themselves and for all of us they have done...