Word: problems
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Professor W. E. B. DuBois '90 of Atlanta, Georgia, spoke in the Union last evening on "The Transplanting of the Race, 1442-1860," dealing with certain historical and present phases of the negro problem...
Professor W. E. B. DuBois '90, of Atlanta. Georgia, will speak in the Union at 7.30 o'clock this evening on the negro problem, his subject being, "The Transplanting of a Race...
...should be jealousies and misunderstandings between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective efforts at the settlement of the labor problem must be directed. President Eliot has done a great deal in this direction by bringing laborers and employers together, by promoting free and frank discussion between them, by taking part in these discussions, and by setting at all times an example of patience and tolerance and of a truly democratic...
...more far-reaching importance than the labor problem is that of maintaining democratic ideals and the democratic virtues of self-respecting freedom, tolerance and regard for law and the common good. Against the recrudescence of militarism and its accompanying vices of ceremonialism in religion and law, bossism and the demand for "regularity" in politics, and snobbery in social relations.--for these things can no more he dissociated than can snow and ice from winter weather.--President Eliot has thrown the weight of his influence. Though in a position where a man of lower ideals could have amply gratified aristocratic yearnings...
...still more fundamental importance is the problem of preserving the quality of the race; for upon this depends the permanence of civilization itself. This should be sharply distinguished from such an inapt expression as "race suicide," which has so impressed uncritical minds. There is as much danger of race suicide as there is of famine through over-population. The real danger is that there may be race degeneration through the failure to multiply on the part of those best fitted to improve the stock; that is, those who have shown their talents by their achievements. Obviously, no race can maintain...