Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no harm in mere numbers, for the number of immigrants in the United States is not excessive, nor is the volume of our immigration directly responsible for any evils of our social and industrial conditions; and consequently the limitation of numbers by the literacy test would not solve our social, economic and industrial problems. Our re- sources and industries, moreover, need more labor to develop them. Any decided restriction of immigration would greatly increase our cost of living and raise both federal and local taxes...
...several months, had just left Vera Cruz for Galveston. They with other Americans were in the Diligencia Hotel, Vera Cruz, when the American marines seized the custom house, and during the fighting that followed, much of it in and about the hotel, the entire party of Americans escaped harm...
They have the honor, the athletic honor, of Harvard to guard. But you men who are going down to Princeton as a cheering corps--you also in President Lowell's words, "have the honor of your University to guard. You can do more harm than many athletic teams can repair." You have no tiger to fight neither in Princeton nor in New York City. You will be watched--particularly if you do anything that should not be seen. For the honor of your College--for that very reason that you go there...
...word of those who have tried this means of preparation we are sure that it leaves the mind far clearer and more capable of its best efforts than the eleventh hour cramming which usually fills the few minutes between breakfast and examinations: At any rate it could do no harm for all to give the new method a fair test...
President Lowell spoke in a general way of the needs of the University. He emphasized the desirability of having men enter college young and take a four years' course. He quoted statistics showing that men who entered at 16 and 17 did better work and suffered less harm than the men who entered at an older...