Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton University, last night delivered the Godkin lecture in Sanders Theatre. Treating two subjects under the titles of "Society and the Individual" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations", the eminent educator stressed not only the duties which the individual owes to the state, and to his fellow citizens, but also the duties of the United States owed to the rest of the world, which, he felt, call for this country's joining the World Court as the "irreducible minimum of our international obligations...
Then, comparing the relation of the individual to society to that of the nation to the "society of nations", President Hibben went on, in the second part of his lecture, to score the "complacent boasting of 100 per cent Americanism as "questionable" and "a begging of the question," because it "assumes that one is serving America best who holds strictly to a policy of isolation." He urged the country to "recognize the fact that the world is one world and what ever peril may menace a part of it vitally effects the whole...
...interesting complexity of the relations not only between the individual and other individuals, but between the individual and society at large was traced from the beginnings of the United States. Nowadays, President Hibben pointed out, the centripetal forces of the rapid growth and development of the nation have driven us more and more closely together. The superficial antithesis which sets the individual over against society, in seeming opposition to each other, must inevitably rise, he declared, to a more profound view which holds to a higher synthesis which recognizes the interdependence of all individuals in working out a common...
...Nation Not Self-Sufficient...
President John Grier Hibben of Princeton will give the single Godkin Lecture at Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock. In this lecture he will treat "The Individual and Society" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations." However, the last subject does not refer to the League of Nations, but in a more general sense to the great world mass comprising all nations and races...