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Woodrow Wilson: “The university spirit is intolerant of all the things that put the human mind under restraint.”

On the recordDecember 20, 1918
The university spirit is intolerant of all the things that put the human mind under restraint.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Remarks at the University of Paris

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