Word: purely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been accepted without questioning there inherent fitness for citizenship or even their purpose in seeking a new land. Once the immigrant has been received into the country, we have trusted assiduously but blindly in the faith the some mysterious alchemy of the melting pot would eventually create a simon pure American out of a "foreigner," without any assistance or supervision on our part. The results of this system are seen in the foreign settlements which have now become a part and a burden of every American city, and in the prominent place that un-American labor is ocupying in disturbance...
...themselves are being exerted toward relieving the situation. These efforts are entirely necessary, but in the end they merely strive to eliminate the effects and not the causes of the difficulty. It is foolish to expect industry, however willing it may be, to create jobs arbitrarily out of pure patriotism. A few thousand can be taken care of in this way, but the majority of the surplus labor can only be absorbed through increased production founded upon the solid basis of increased demand for products. The real remedy to this pressing situation must come through the stop-page...
...world depends so much on what is being said and thought today, it seems only reasonable that all measures calculated to insure the elimination, so far as possible, of all class or national prejudices in our system of academic instruction, should receive the hearty support of all concerned. A pure and unblased history of the past has yet to be taken and has yet to be written...
This spirit was repeated by Chancellor Shipley, who in the absence of Sir Henry Jones, of the University of Glasgow, again took the floor. He also dwelt on the value of the pure sciences, such as mathematics. To illustrate this he said that seven years ago he was on a commission to chart the currents at the bottom of the North Sea, an assignment apparently impractical. But in the war the British were able to place their mines, but ahead of the maps made by this commission, so that the mines drifted exactly where they were expected to. He spoke...
...times; conflicting interests of shippers and the selfish attitude of railroad managers toward labor must never again be allowed to jeopardize the safety and well-being of the populace. Whether what we desire would be best accomplished under the former private ownership, under the leasehold system, or under pure government ownership is one of the many problems that must soon be settled by men in and out of Congress...