Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike the imagination of even the dullwitted. If it became known that all this would be the inevitable result of parenthood under these conditions, a fall would take place in the birth rate of all this section of the less fit, with great beneficial results, both immediate and racial...
...spirit in this country. In Europe where most of the people live and die in the same locality their lives are much more likely to become intimately connected and bound up with each other than in the United States where the inhabitants are of a distinctly roving nature. The racial differences in this country also hinder the development of a friendly and cooperative feeling in a community...
Religious or racial discrimination was stoutly denied, however, by Harvard officials. And the discretionary power was explained this way: It was desirable to be able to admit high-stand students on certificate, not only from the eastern private schools that point specially for the college board examinations, but from schools in the South and West as well, where the college board is unknown either as a criterion or a cramp...
...much confusion and threatened chaos it is indispensable that the amenities no less than the intellectualities be concentrated and conserved, the highest character and traditions of American life. The means adopted by Harvard seem admirably calculated to accomplish this while avoiding the un-Americanism of racial or religious discrimination...
...college is able to instruct effectively and to assimilate socially. The practical result of the discrimination against commuters will probably be to excude some of the less able among the young men who come from the Jewish quarter of Boston; but President Lowell, while standing as always against mere racial discrimination, is convinced that it is justified. Of late years there has been an antagonistic grouping of undergraduates as prejudicial to the members of the group as to the college. The purpose of education, he has said, is to break down the barrier of race and draw the individual into...