Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s a right to be placed on apar with our Lincoln. THE COUNT AND THE PROFESSOR MEMBERS of faculty split over the Tolstoy discus-sion is the startling headline in the New YorkTimes. This is, as Mark Twain said about the report ofhis death, a great exaggeration. No members of theColumbia faculty have split any farther than the ordi-nary opening of the jaws and not many of them havegone so far as that. The facts of the matter are simplythese: The International Club, a cosmopolitan associ-ation of students meeting in one of the university halls,invited Count Ilya Tolstoy to address them, but Profes-sor Prince, head of the Slavonic department, interposeda veto on the ground that Tolstoys opinions were cal-culated to weaken the spirit of patriotism. The Countcountered by retorting that the Professor talked Rus-sian badly. We are not able to substantiate or to dis-prove either allegation. We have never heard ProfessorPrince speak Russian, and should not know, if we did, • • - . .-. .4- - -
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