STUDENTS' MANNERS.
Dr. Butler Deplores Decline In America. LACE OF FAMILY INFLUENCE. {Eeeeived 10.30 ajs-'j VANCOUVER, December 27. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the Columbia University and winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, acknowledging gifts of nearly £6-000.000 to ni= university during this adverse year, occasion to administer a rap to the student body for "the steady decline in the practice of good manners." He- emphasised the virtual abdication of the family as the primary controlling factor in education, along with its subsequent collapse. "The Protestant Churches," he "have combined to place schools a burden and responsibility which tnev cannot and should not be asked to Dear.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 306, 28 December 1931, Page 7
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109STUDENTS' MANNERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 306, 28 December 1931, Page 7
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