Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much more interest to college men. But they have always been of very vital interest to the nation, because in them the great majority of the people have received whatever schooling has come to them. They have served as the melting-pot for the Americanization of our large foreign population. In the past they have had teachers of a very high grade of intelligence and education. But conditions have changed. The teaching profession has become one of the most desperately underpaid occupations in the community. Last year in Massachusetts there were 1800 teachers who received not over $550 in wages...
...need only a leader to direct their energies. There are many older boys and young men who are no longer able to attend school, and yet have only begun to learn. They need some one to guide their reading and conduct classes. Then there is that large number of foreigners, many of whom have been here for years and are still foreign. They need to be interested and instructed in our language and customs...
...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 or supervision on our part. The results of this system are seen in the foreign settlements which have now become a part and a burden of every American city, and in the prominent place that un-American labor is ocupying in disturbance throughout the United States...
...dangerous liability. That part which is desirous of accepting America for better or for worse should be given every encouragement and opportunity to do so, but those who are here for other purposes, boding ill to American institutions, should be eliminated at once. These two divisions of the "foreign" element require of us education and deportation respectively. Until these two problems are solved, however, a third measure is immediately necessary. It is the rigid restriction or prohibition of immigration for the next few years. Each time such a bill has appeared in Congress it has secured stronger support, so that...
...United States Government, and the Decoration of the Legion of Honor by the Government of France. General Collardet, French Military Attache presented the latter Decoration, and Secretary Baker awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with the following citation: "While on duty as liaison officer between the War Department and the foreign military missions, he displayed the greatest discretion and ability and contributed materially to the successful conduct of military-diplomatic relations between the War Department and the allied military missions...