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...intention at the time of the conclusion of the present commercial treaty of 1911 between your country and mine to exercise voluntary control over the coming to this country of our emigrants who are not desired here, but we have been most scrupulously and effectively carrying it out in deed...
...vice in the coming generation but it actually swindles the confiding children most shamefully. In its intended form, it is naturally unfair,--but when the dealers tamper with the works, and remove the most favorable chances altogether, it becomes worse than selling street-cars to immigrants. That most-reviled deed--taking milk from babies--becomes almost benevolent by contrast...
...land upon which it stands, to a board of trustees, together with an endowment sufficient for its permanent maintenance. It has been designated as the Pierpont Morgan Library and its character and purpose are set forth by my letter to the trustees, and by extracts from the deed of conveyance, copies of which are attached to this statement...
...extracts from the deed of conveyance the Pierpont Morgan Library is described as "A public library, for reference only, without any circulation or withdrawal privileges ... to encourage and develop study and research and generally to conduct an institution of educational value to the public." The general public is excluded, however, and only that part of it who are students, "persons engaged in the work of research" and those interested in literature and kindred subjects are to be admitted "under suitable rules and regulations...
...reliability of the great clock incidentally is remarkable. There are several kinds of perfectly good time--Sidereal time, Naval Observatory time, Western Union time and perhaps others--but Memorial time is none of these. In-deed, the Memorial clock has the distinction of keeping not even it's own time consistently. Gaining twenty minutes in three hours is a world's record which not even Jules verne could equal--but ordinarily, from day to day, its little variations do not exceed five or ten minutes...