Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...than 5% would give satisfaction if employed. ¶ Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, spoke from the standpoint of anthropology: "In coldblooded, scientific language our best stock is threatened with extinction." Nevertheless, he opposed the "bias of this country in favor of the Nordic immigrant. This is a mistake. Selective immigration would prevent such a mistake and take from healthy, sound families the type we want. I believe that in Italy and in the Balkans there can be found desirable types of future Americans...
...stops at 25 universities, President MacCracken concluded that " the most outspoken advocates of extreme nationalism were to be found among university professors and students." He finds at home " extreme tendencies toward nationalistic reserve and chauvinistic isolation " in the same quarter, and utters a warning against " the false gospel of Nordic superiority, against inaccurate assumptions derived from army psychological tests and investigation of mentality of school children, that people from the South of Europe are intellectually inferior to the people from the North; against the eugenists who, on insufficient evidence, are uttering ridiculous cries of terror and warning at the limitation...