Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provision had been written into the Immigration Bill excluding all alien immigrants not eligible to become citizens from entrance into the U. S. after July 1 of this year. The bill was in joint conference after having passed both Houses. Minor differences were being compromised before final approval...
...Another minor point in the deliberations hinges on the question of Chesham House, Tsarist London Embassy. At present M. Sabline, member of the Embassy staff before Bolshevik days, occupies the house and, "recognizing that he is not in Moscow," refuses to budge. M. Rakovsky claimed the Embassy for Sovietland and thus evinces a desire to establish the Soviet regime as lawful heir to that of the Tsars. The British Government favors M. Rakovsky's contention, but the whole matter was exciting a good 'deal of comment and was further complicated by obscure legal points...
Professor Morize resents certain newspaper write-ups of his recent address before the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs, which merely exaggerated minor points of his speech and missed the real purpose. "It seems to me," he continued, explaining to the reporter just how he felt that American education, on the whole, puts the formation of character before the training of intelligence. This is natural if you go back to the origins and traditions of both nations--Anglo-Saxon mind versus Latin Culture. One may ask, today, however, whether the general conditions of our civilization do not call...
Because of the present unsettled conditions of affairs in Asia Minor, the excavations of Colophor being carried on by the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens have been temporarily discontinued...
...site was chosen at Colophor in Asia Minor, and the work of excavating was begun there in the early part of 1922. In spite of difficulties and interruptions of long periods, the excavations have been carried on, and interesting results have been obtained. Very early pottery of a geometric character have been found, and good types of terra cotta and coins, but it is estimated that the most important result of the work has been the contribution made to the knowledge of ancient architecture, especially of early house plans which the investigations have unearthed...