Word: schurman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of a great college and a man with world-renown as an educator, Mr. Schurman showed a surprising amount of ignorance in his speech at the Union last night. In the first place, he stated that President Wilson had no right to go to France since the people had repudiated his leadership by electing a Republican majority to the Senate. Since that time, however, it has been proved by the conviction of Senator New-berry that that majority was entirely illegal, and, in reality, it should have been Democratic, thus giving the President all the right in the world...
...well aware of the facts, prevented the acceptance. He then went on to say that the League provided for unequal voting powers since United States had only one vote and the other powers a total of eight. It must be ignorance and not a lack of intelligence, for Dr. Schurman is surely an intelligent man, that gave birth to such a statement, for the covenant definitely states that no act of the council shall be binding without an unanimous vote, that is to say, one vote is equal to eight, and the vote of United States or any other vote...
...meeting of the Harding-Coolidge Club at the Union this evening at 8, Jacob Gould Schurman, for 28 years President of Cornell University, and Mr. Louis A. Coolidge '83 will speak...
Aside from his national reputation as President of Cornell, Dr. Schurman has been recognized as a leader in New York State politics, in the foreign affairs of the country, and in the literary world, especially in the field of History. He has served as President of the first United States Philippine Commission, and, in 1912 and 1913, as our minister to Greece and Montenegro. While in this official capacity, he gathered the first-hand material that he later published in the authoritative book on the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. On his return to this country...
...Louis A. Coolidge '83, who will preside at the meeting, will add a few remarks to those of Dr. Schurman. Mr. Coolidge, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Roosevelt, is a man well known in national politics. Last summer Mr. Coolidge, who was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was elected Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements...