Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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James Russell Lowell was a product of Harvard, brought up in an atmosphere which unconsciously makes for a strong and enduring devotion to the nation. All one need do is look around him to find where Harvard gets these traditions. The Washington Elm, Soldiers Field, Memorial Hall, are mute testimonials of the part Harvard and Cambridge have played in the national crises of the past...
...where entrance is by certificate instead of by examination, the proportion of students from the free public schools is very much greater. The result is that these schools are rapidly becoming of 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...
...college men in this country puts the number of those who took part in the war at only about 18 per cent, just half the University's record. Further statistics have been complied by the CRIMSON, which show that the men from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton served the nation equally well during the emergency, no one institution distinguishing itself above the others for its measure of sacrifice. It is evident that it is not the mere superiority in numbers of men in the service which furnishes a basis for a correct estimate of a college's patriotism, but the proportional...
Such an element of unassimilated material within the nation is a 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...
...mood of appreciative understanding has been further prepared for the memories of today by the service of Sunday, held in honor of a man who, like Lincoln, seemed to combine within himself those qualities which we are proud to call "American." No other great leaders of this nation have ever typified so well its distinguishing characteristics. It is significant that the highest honor payable to subsequent leaders of America has been to compare their qualities with the exemplary ones of Lincoln...