Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Columbia. A Freshman struck the true spirit of the occasion when he said that the students had met to protest against the action of the Trustees, and that the affair was purely an academic matter. Proposals for framing resolutions to be sent to the Trustees and President Butler were read. Cheers were given for the professors who either have been dismissed or have resigned. A student mass meeting for Friday noon was planned...
...Zeppelin raid, is to create a feeling that we have an easy path before us. Newspapers have enlarged this misconception. Stories of the remarkable strides being made by our troops, of compliments paid to them, and of German prisoners' surprise at seeing so many, are printed frequently and read widely. Stories of an opposite character are seldom even printed. The result on the average person can be none other than to elevate the untried American army above its experienced foes and allies...
...Company E: M. E. Olmstead, C. Butler, K. Chase, M. E. Curtis, B. D. Dental, A. Houghton, K. F. Hu, D. T. McKenzie, H. Millet, J. R. Parsons, K. Paul, J. H. Peters, J. B. Read, R. C. Raudebush, F. R. Simpson, H. P. Taggard, D. W. Swonson, H. P. Weiner...
Once again Columbia comes before the world in an unenviable light. In this morning's paper we read of the expulsion of Professors Cattell and Dana from that university for holding pacifist views (oh, la belle raison!). Some of us still hold to the belief (is it so unreasonable?) that a professor dissenting from the majority opinion respecting the governmental war policy is not thereby disqualified from teaching psychology or comparative literature. The Columbia Faculty, however, take the opposite view and apparently agree with the Imperial German Government that political orthodoxy is the test of intellectual capacity. Indeed one might...
...been in similar cases in the past? That the patient may have received a black eye, or been bruised or otherwise maltreated by some belligerent in the war, but that its pulse is as strong, its brain as clear, and its voice as authoritative as before it read its own obituary. And to add weight to their diagnosis they would issue a bulletin, assuring the world that they still felt bound to obey literally the word of their patient, regardless of any circumstances they might urge as excuses...