Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have entered the higher institution of learning, seeking the vital elements of American life, can truly interpret the cartoon. For we have seen Uncle Sam, who appropriates billions upon billions of dollars, making the men wear the uniforms of world democracy, and telling them to eat war bread, doughnuts, and molasses cakes in their dormitories. In our classrooms we have been proud to sit among his soldiers, equipped for the full duties of citizenship...
...have splendid opportunities, through the Harvard professors and students, to learn the available lesson--to make our life's achievements larger. We must open mindedly study to appreciate what is good in the customs and ideas of the American people. We are taught how to talk, how to write from left to right, and how to be in close touch with all phases of actual American life. The spirit of higher education, which enables us to see the social and moral activities of Harvard, finds response in our hearts. It shows us a type of education, different from that...
Japan has been glad to send us here. She desires us to become the true friends of the American students and to tell them of Japan. She believes that the students can become the real mediators between the two countries. Those of us who are attending Harvard have an opportunity to carry her message to the Americans, and on the other hand to talk to our people through the Japanese newspapers and magazines...
...doing a great work for us. We appreciate it. And it is largely the Japanese student who returns to his country, who will stimulate and foster international interest and friendship. It is the Japanese student educated in the University, who will interpret to the Japanese nation the virility of American life and American ideals. KEIZO MATSUNO...
...revealed many virtues in the American people it has also brought to light one of the most sinister vices that can affliot a civilized community. The army reports from the different draft camps reveal an alarming percentage of illiteracy among the draftees, not only with men of foreign birth but also among the native born Americans. New estimates represent, the number of illiterates in the country as being far above the census reports of the last decade...