Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...righted. In an athletic system which embraces some six hundred undergraduates there are bound to be a few laggards and malcontents; there are bound to be times when the individual student will have to learn to play his own game of squash without an instructor on hand to teach him and see that he does not loaf...
...teach students to think straight is the chief aim of colleges themselves. The institution which grasps this firmly will not be driven to interfere with academic freedom. Teachers cannot safely be forbidden to offer their own interpretation of facts, but they can and must be asked to make clear the distinction between the objective facts and the subjective interpretation. When this is done there is no risk of our institutions being turned into organs of propaganda in the social disputes of the present moment...
...purpose of this course, according to President Butler, to teach or to preach doctrines, but rather to show the movement of civilization in its achievement of constructive progress. The context of the course is drawn out not merely from history, but from economics, politics, ethics, and political science...
...course during the second half-year. The hours will be on Sundays from 3 to 4 and Wednesdays from 3 to 5. At the beginning of the Year Judge Stone's resignation seemed to prevent the giving of the course this year, but Professor Huntington has since obtained to teach...
These disclosures must throw discredit on the old system of European diplomacy. The secret treaties are not to be regarded as interesting historical curiosities. They are of importance today, and they can teach us much about the future. For, in spite of promises of "open covenants openly arrived at," we have not been suddenly issued into an age of good-fellowship among nations. The compromises which President Wilson was forced to make at Paris furnish abundant evidence that European methods of diplomacy are still a force with which we must contend...