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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 358th day of the year.
On this day in 1918, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page reported on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s speech at the Paris-Sorbonne University, where he was presented with an honorary doctorate. Wilson, who was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Europe, had been a professor at and president of Princeton University before entering politics. He already held an earned Ph.D. and other degrees. At the Sorbonne, stating his belief that the mission of education was to awaken the spirit, Wilson said that the recently ended war was “only between nations, but has also been a war between systems of culture.” One culture is the aggressor, “using science without conscience.” The other culture is freedom-seeking.
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