Word: russian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...approximately 1,000,000 immigrants a year were entering the United States. In concluding, he prophesied that within a period of two to five years America will again see a large stream of immigration towards her shores, made up of more French, Belgians and Germans, and less Russian Jews and other Slavs...
Professor Robert H. Lord '06, of the History Department, who travelled extensively in Russia during the war, and later served on the Peace Commission as a special adviser on Russian affairs, will be the principal speaker at the opening reception of the Graduates School Society, to be given in the parlors of Phillips Brooks House on Wednesday evening, October 1, at 7.30 o'clock...
...announced will consist of a Spanish play directed by J. V. Manach '21, a play-let written by L. B. Geyer '19 and with a cast indicating the many nationalities represented in the Club, and musical numbers as well as dances, characteristic of the different countries. These include a Russian Ballet by a student of Simmons College, a Japanese number by S. Muromats 2G.B., Hawaiian music by Miss Alice Wong of Boston University, piano selections by J. M. Sanroma of the New England Conservatory of Music, a Spanish dance by S. C. Montaegudo, a chalk talk, a Chinese Sword Dance...
...terrible instance of one of our own American shortcomings is illuminated. These outlaws (the Bolsheviki) are largely Russian Jews, whom we permitted to breed anarchy in the slums of New York. We have long had the problem of the city slum, and we have failed to deal with it. We have acquiesced in a twofold condition whereby great hordes of foreigners are unable--sometimes unwilling--to live according to American standards of living, and who, by their degradation no less than by their words, have poisoned the minds of other foreigners against this nation, which once had been the ideal...
Professor Wiener is an authority on Germanic Russian and Semitic peoples. His group will discuss "Bolshevism in Russia and America...