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...Kirby Page, editor of The World Tomorrow, in conjunction with Samuel Parkes Cadman, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Daniel Alfred Poling, Walter Russell Bowie, John Nevin Sayre, i Ralph Washington Sockman, Reinhold Niebuhr, j Sherwood Eddy and William Pierson Merrill, all of whom suspected, and hoped for, the effect of Peter's conscience on his views...
...former president of Amherst College and at present chairman of the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin, will address the Liberal Club on an unknown subject. F. V. Field '26, secretary of the Institute of Pacific Relations, will speak on American imperialism in China. The Rev. Mr. Reinhold Niebuhr of the Yale Divinity School is also to talk...
...itself in a separate case. It is justly regarded as the most important possession of the library. It was obtained in this way. In 1882, the German citizens of Baltimore purchased the private library of Bluntschli, including his student notebooks of the lectures of Savigny and Niebuhr, and generously presented it to the Historical Library. The widow of Francis Lieber in 1884 presented to the library the entire published works of her husband, and a number of manuscript annotations in his own hands...
...institution which can claim Goldsmith, Walter Scott, Carlyle, and Darwin among its alumni and can say that Niebuhr came from Germany to spend a year within its walls is of no mean repute. It is pleasant to notice that in its three-hundredth year the number of students is greater than ever before, having reached an aggregate of 3,341, more than half of whom are in its medical department. Nearly one-third are in the department of arts, while the rest are jurists and theologians...
...Southern college, and finally held the chair of political science in Columbia College till his death in '72. Lieber was widely known as a writer on economics and International Law, but readers will now find most interest in his acquaintance with prominent men here and abroad-with Niebuhr, Humbolt, the present Emperor of Germany, and Jerome Bonaparte; with Story, Webster, Clay, Sumner, Agassiz and Longfellow. Among the many valuable letters chosen by Mr. Perry, one in particular gives Lieber's personal recollections of the battle of Waterloo, and others present a striking picture of the state of feelings...