Annual Report of the President to the Trustees with Accompanying Documents

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Стр. 99 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds v of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Стр. 53 - Literature, prepares the best essay upon some subject of contemporaneous interest in the domestic or foreign policy of the United States Government.
Стр. 285 - Of books temporarily drawn from the general collections for particular use during a limited time, (c) Of books so special and technical in character and at the same time in sufficiently frequent use to justify their permanent shelving in a department library. Books, however special or technical, that are used but rarely are shelved more economically and advantageously in the General Library than as part of a departmental collection.
Стр. 60 - The competition is open to all persons whether connected with Columbia University or not, and whether citizens of the United States...
Стр. 97 - ... have rarely received unqualified approval or support from the university proper. But this great business is the university's great opportunity. The university should be a place to which resort not only those who seek degrees, but also those who seek enlightenment, encouragement, and inspiration. There should be found the youngster who needs instruction, the men and women of society, those busied with affairs, the writer, the publicist, the statesman, the men of the professions, the inquisitive...
Стр. 27 - German, and it is sheer folly to suppose that this lack of ability to use a great educational instrument and a vitally important tool in business and social intercourse is compensated for by a more or less superficial knowledge of the classic literature of the French and German peoples or by the capacity to read a French or German book with more or less constant dependence upon the dictionary. Indeed, it would be highly advantageous if all instruction in the French, German, Spanish or Italian languages...
Стр. 187 - Theodore Roosevelt professor of American history and institutions in the University of Berlin for the year 1911-1912. He will lecture upon the subject of the Expansion of the United States.
Стр. 54 - University, given every five years "for the most distinguished contribution made during the preceding five-year period anywhere in the world to philosophy or to educational theory, practice, or administration.
Стр. 26 - ... important than the ability to read those languages and the possession of some general knowledge of their literatures. This is a sadly perverted point of view. The man who is able to read a page of Taine, or perhaps of Anatole France, and who finds himself in a French business house or a French...
Стр. 55 - College and Applied Science, to establish this fund; the income of which is to be used for the purpose of defraying, or assisting to defray, the expenses of maintaining the work of the Committee on Employment of Students. Established...

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