Reminiscences of Sir George Bailey Sansom : oral history, 1957.

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Reminiscences of Sir George Bailey Sansom : oral history, 1957.

Education; British foreign service in Japan; Japanese cultural life; World War II; peace terms; East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Transcript: 96 leaves.

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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