Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dartmouth has originated a course which the University would do well to duplicate. "Problems in Citizenship" has been formed because of the great popularity of its predecessor, dealing with problems relating to the great war. The new subject has been made compulsory...
...from non sectarian preparatory schools, both boarding and country day institutions. The requirements are almost uniformly athletics, music, and dramatics. Mathematics and science are the subjects most frequently called for, but there is also a great demand for men with historical and economic training sufficient to lead classes in citizenship. Inexperienced men without preparation for teaching are less and less in demand. Opportunities are offered for teaching in the following states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island...
...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...
...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 of Japan, a type which appears most important in preparing the young men for citizenship in a democracy...
...what politicians and sentimentalists love to call the "melting pot" is fast becoming clogged with unmelted material and dross. For a number of years and enormous tide of immigration has been pouring into America. With woefully inadequate restrictions, all comers have been accepted without questioning there inherent fitness for citizenship or even their purpose in seeking a new land. Once the immigrant has been received into the country, we have trusted assiduously but blindly in the faith the some mysterious alchemy of the melting pot would eventually create a simon pure American out of a "foreigner," without any assistance...