Word: assimilationism
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Last week in New Orleans gathered the 35th Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, plus its affiliated lay organizations, the National Federations of Temple Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods. Like the Rabbis, the Union seemed no longer sure of the virtues of modernism and Americanism. It was aware that enemies...
For "developing muscles weakened by lack of daily use," the sovereign system of Professor Edith Lindsay of Oakland's Mills College is swimming. "Swimming," she declared last week, "tops all activities as to values in physical, social, psychological and recreational development. . . . Besides direct effect on muscles, swimming is a...
At Boston City Hospital Dr. Blotner secured the stomach contents of eight drunkards who had been drinking one to two pints of whiskey a day for more than a week. Their digestive juices had no effect on hard-boiled eggs, "direct evidence," stated Dr. Blotner, "that large quantities of liquor...
Following the Pratt idea there would today be no reservation system; the languages, tribal customs and habits would long since have vanished and the American Indian would long since have been but a memory. This idea follows the assimilation of the many racials that have come to the U. S...
The titular leader of U. S. Progressive Education settled himself in the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington last week and prepared to dispense the blessings of his faith to 81,000 young Amerindians. President Willard Walcott Beatty of the Progressive Education Association was fresh from the rich New York...