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...depend on the financial resources of one's father. Much has been made in the sports columns of the nation of the appearance for the first time on a Yale varsity eleven of a Negro player and of the number of men on both teams whose names are not Anglo-Saxon. Such an occurrence has a significance that makes any joke or tolerant smile on the subject seem jejeune and slightly sour. For the social flux which is going on in both schools and which is symbolized by the change in make-up of their football teams is packed tight...
Written under the twin delusions that Americans were chiefly of Anglo-Saxon origin, and that this stock was greatly preferable to Eastern and Southern European strains, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 limits total annual immigration to 150,000, with individual nations held to a number proportional to their representation in the total 1920 United States population. However, the "Anglo-Saxons" and "Nordies" received a disproportionately large slice, for other Europeans were considered to be relatively inferior and undesirable. The emigration motivations of the latter were thought to be economic rather than religious or political. Unskilled and numerous, they appeared...
Vengeance hung over the whole trial, he said. "And vengeance is seldom justice. ... In these trials we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of trials-government policy and not justice-which has little relation to our Anglo-Saxon heritage. ... I pray that we do not repeat the procedure in Japan...
...their bitter denunciation of the Soviet Union. Previous to the Molotov speech, Harold Laski had, in an article in The Nation, sharply taken issue with the Soviet Foreign Minister over his tactics of obfuscation and mystery--and Laski has been perhaps Russia's most eloquent champion in the Anglo-Saxon world...
...Richard, who recognizes the fact that education is a lifelong process, is one of adult education's most persuasive salesmen. He believes in a special kind-"not only for those who have missed a complete education, but also for those who have received one." He would have Anglo-Saxon countries take a lesson from Denmark's "people's high schools," which are not high schools but residential colleges for adults. There men & women in their late twenties leave their jobs for three or five months, to study the humanities and live a community life. Says Sir Richard...