STUDENTS’ MANNERS
1 I, i DECLINE IN AMERICA \- ' .■' : A A PRESIDENT’S INDICTMENT. ’ ■ U I-V •• :: ! Vt; VANCOUVER, December 27. Mr Butler, president of the Columbia University, in acknowledging gifts, of nearly £0,000,000 to that university during this adverse year, took occasion to rap the student body for ..“the-steady decline in the practice of good manners,” He emphasised that the virtual abdication of the family as the 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, c ■ . " / v...
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21529, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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100STUDENTS’ MANNERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 21529, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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