Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...largest university in the world. In fact, no other institution of learning in the world even approaches it in size. For this supremacy Columbia has the European war to thank. Before the war broke out the University of Berlin, with 14,000 students, was well on the way to leadership. Today, however, it is lagging far in the rear. While it is hardly fair to compare Columbia's statistics with those of other American universities because the word "student" does not mean the same to all of them, the tremendous public service which Columbia performs cannot be overlooked. Before...
...Langdell, Ames, and Thayer are the leading names in this evolution. It will not be easy to find a successor to them, for the position has grown in their hands to one of the foremost magnitude. The Law School enters upon its second century facing a great loss in leadership. May that loss be retrieved, and may be next hundred years in the Law School's history be as full of achievement as the last...
...Club will give a concert under the auspices of the Anti-Suffrage Association at the Moses Williams estate in Brookline this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The Club was organized a few weeks ago to furnish the music for the Freshman Jubilee, and has been working steadily under the leadership of L. K. Moorehead '18. This afternoon's concert will probably be the last one of the season, as it is too late in the year to arrange any further engagements...
...exceptional opportunity for the scientific study of international affairs. Those attending the conference should start with no presuppositions other than a sincere desire to discover the true causes for the present war and the means of averting similar conflicts in the future. Working on these premises, under the leadership of such sound thinkers as have, agreed to attend the meetings, some progress at least should be made toward the discovery of means for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. Of hardly secondary importance to agreement upon the form which the promotion of international justice and world organization should take...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra, under the leadership of W. N. Hewitt 1G., will give its one hundred and seventh annual concert in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The program is in some respects a departure from those of previous years, in that it includes neither a composition by a University student nor one entirely new to American audiences. However, Borodin's First Symphony, is at least not very familiar in this vicinity, having been played only twice in Boston...