Word: restrictionism
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What Dean Solomon had done in her book. Ancestors and Immigrants, is to show the origins of the battle. Her book focuses on the founding and flowering of the Immigration Restriction League, a Boston-based national organization which was eventually successful in having strict quotas placed on immigration. Although the...
With attitudes like these prevailing, it is not surprising that the Boston intellectual community was willing to subscribe to a theory of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority. Henry Adams, John Fiske, and Henry Cabot Lodge all taught this doctrine at Harvard at one time or another, while Francis Amasa Walker held...
This is one gangster film that boasts men who make choices, who are more than fun-loving ethnic types. The restriction and discipline of Mafia living are accurately conveyed: Its deadly patronage, by which vows of love for the Don and pledges of unmitigated loyalty result in feudal bonds which...
But without a restriction prohibiting freshmen from varsity competition the same amount of money would provide 16 varsity swimmers rather than the previous 12, or sticking with the 12 the university could save money. The more swimmers a program could recruit, the better the program and hence an increase in...
"I'd hate to limit enrollment," Rippe said, "since the lack of structure and restriction is integral to what we're doing. Many of the students who make pots here are either intimidated by the prospect of taking a course at the Carpenter Center, or couldn't get into one...