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Devoted to unfamiliar music of the late Eighteenth Century, the evening was chiefly of historical importance. One cannot help admiring Mozart and Haydn more than ever, after comparing them with their mediocre contemporaries represented on Monday's program...
...search of a proud tradition they will uncover one basic fact -- Princeton University owes its very existence to the munificence of a shady Harvard graduate. The charitable efforts of this disreputable man made Old Nassau a reality, without them the New Jersey College would have fizzled out in the eighteenth century...
...Harvard was founded ... by a group of vigorous dissenters from the Church of England. Before a generation had passed there was dissent from the first dissent. By the turn of the eighteenth century the orthodoxy of Harvard was considered highly questionable ... by the time we celebrated our 300th anniversary it was widely accepted that a vast number of colleges and universities in America, whatever their denominational, origins, were ... secular institutions. How could it be otherwise in a nation where religious toleration was a necessary condition of survival...
...than twenty years he participated actively in the work of the Institute of Pacific Relations and contributed generously to it ... On the other hand. I did not start contributions to the Institute until 1946. From that year until the present I made six donations totaling $800, or about one-eighteenth of the total of my father's gifts. Yet your subcommittee and its investigators have never once mentioned my Republican father's long and deep interest in the Institute. Instead, this subcommittee has stressed my own slight and brief association with the Institute, obviously as part...
Commenting on his paper, Professor L. J. van Holk of the University of Leyden, Holland, pointed out that the growth of empiricism coincided with the eighteenth century enlightenment and the rise of liberalism...