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Woodrow Wilson: I knew that all a university could do if it knew its business was to interpret the moral forces of the world.

On the recordJune 29, 1916
I knew that all a university could do if it knew its business was to interpret the moral forces of the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address Before the Press Club in New York City

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