COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
HANDSOME GIFTS DURING YEAR PRESIDENT TAKES STUDENT BODY TO TASK Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, December 27. (Received December 28, at 10 a.m.) Mr Butler ; president of Columbia University, in acknowledging gifts of nearly £6,000,000 to that university during this adverse year, took occasion to rap tho student body for “ the steady decline in the practice of good manners.” He emphasised .that the virtual abdication of the family as tho primary controlling factor in education, along with the subsequent collapse of Protestant churches, have combined to place upon schools a burden and responsibility which they cannot and should not be asked to bear.
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Evening Star, Issue 20986, 28 December 1931, Page 7
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104COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Evening Star, Issue 20986, 28 December 1931, Page 7
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