Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of the speakers advocated restriction and selection, but as to the degree and variety of each there was no consensus of opinion. Especially, there were two different methods of attacking the problem-from the industrial standpoint, and from the standpoint of the welfare of the race and of citizenship...
...Congress of the United States, have placed restrictions on American shipping in regard to wages, the citizenship of crews and officers...
...Orthodox Jewish College in New York. Such sectionalism, such isolation from the commonwealth is to be commended neither among the Jews, nor among the Catholics in their Catholic colleges, nor in Episcopalian or any other denominational Institutions. For such institutions run, flatly counter to the ideal of American citizenship, of giving all the population America's heritage of traditions and America's purposes...
...this been filled. That the average Englishman is more interested in the government of his country and consequently knows more about it than the average American is a widely accepted fact. Perhaps in recognition of this, educators and prominent men throughout the country are constantly advocating the teaching of citizenship in public schools. They could, therefore, with much reason point the finger of scorn at Harvard for not requiring of its students any knowledge of their country's government or Constitution...
...time for the examination would perhaps be late in the Junior year. Moreover it might be well to establish an optional course, full or half, which would deal primarily with the material to be covered by the examination. The important thing, however, is to get the need of a citizenship requirement generally recognized both by the undergraduate and by the college authorities. For by the dictates of psychology, an impulse will inevitably express itself in some action...