Word: hyphens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interesting in more ways than one is the provision concerning examinations in English composition. If faithfully adhered to it will guarantee the continuance of Harvard as a university for Americans. The foreign student is of course allowed for, but not the hyphen...
...McSweeney that is important, but his obviously hyphenated attitude, an attitude which tends more every day to become characteristic of the politicians who imagine that they may thus appeal to American citizens of Irish origin. If we are to have a nation we must forget all sorts of hyphenated Americanism. They hyphen is bad simply because it is a hyphen. The last things that the vast majority of Americans want, or can afford, or ought to have, is a war with Great Britain. However just the cause of any other country may be, there stands above it the cause...