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...those days, there was enormous discrimination against any Japanese,” recalls Fujimoto. “Alien Japanese were not allowed to own property and had very little rights. On the West Coast in particular, the discrimination was excited in great part by the ‘Yellow Peril?? propaganda put out by the Hearst newspapers,” Fujimoto says—referring to the chain of papers, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the San Francisco Examiner, owned by Harvard dropout William Randolph Hearst...

Author: By Siodhbhra M. Parkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: For One Grad, Day Still Lives in Infamy | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

...sensitive to humidity, and extreme conditions will affect the quality of the reverberations.“I am not as good as the professional players, but I know what ‘good’ is,” Zhou says.A DANGEROUS PROFESSIONPerforming in the Square is not without peril??Zhou’s collection box has been nabbed five times. The first time, a few teenagers stole three dollars from the box, but they were apprehended by the police.Another time, a woman pretended to give a dollar, but actually stole one from his box. Zhou grabbed...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Self-Taught Fiddler Sharpens Up Square | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...children living in urban America. But as Protestant families began to flock out of the city, leaving the neighborhoods to the Catholic immigrants, so too they left the political establishment to aspirant Catholics. New anti-immigrant political parties like the Know Nothings, spouting about “the Yellow Peril?? and the incline of “papism,” blocked appropriations in state legislatures for new public schools in the Catholic-dominated areas. The few public schools still operating often refused to allow Catholics through the doors, nervous the “papism?...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: The Lessons of Blaine's Racism | 12/9/2003 | See Source »

Harvard’s victory over Brown was its 12th straight. The winning streak has hardly come without peril??witness a 77-75 double overtime win over Cornell and a 59-55 victory over Penn...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Seniors Celebrate With Class | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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