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Bostonians' indignation over a recent Gallup Poll received support yesterday from Oscar Handlin, professor of History. The poll listed Boston fourth behind Washington, New York, and Philadelphia as the American city with the "most historical interest...
...Oscar Handlin, professor of History and chairman of the new committee, said last night that "there is every indication that most able people are not going into teaching" and that the group will consider various methods for remedying this situation...
Harvard 3 is the arena as capital grapples with labor, rugged individualism takes on socialism, and the referee, newly returned Professor Osear Handlin, always gains control at the end. "History 170a" surveys the economic history of the country, with special emphasis on the development of industry and agriculture during the last 50 years...
Opening the gates to an increased flow of immigration, however, is economically advantageous. Immigration has always had the effect of raising the standards of native labor, points our Oscar Handlin '35, professor of History. By taking the lowest places in industry and agriculture and, as consumers, by expanding the domestic markets, the immigrants help them who were earlier to advance into superior clerical, managerial, or professional positions. Formerly, such a policy would have been bucked by the labor unions, but now with their security guaranteed, the American Federation of Labor has come out strongly in favor of greater immigration...
Also, as demonstrated by Handlin, we pour millions of dollars in foreign aid into countries which are overpopulated and where the benefit of the aid does not reach the individual. But by accepting only 1,000 from such countries, economic experts predict that these nations could stand on their own feet...