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...indeed. The dialect as only one of many he used freely in the course of the evening, and pals was only one of many things he called the audience as they responded to his often witty and coherent monologue with pained silence, sporadic hissing, and brief-Anglo-Saxon shouts...
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 forth across the river at MIT. When Dr. Lodge left Harvard for a life in politics, he took his racial theories with him. It was with a firm basis in academic theory that the Immigration Restriction League began its existence...
THERE WERE of course, some Brahmins who opposed the league and its activities, people Mrs. Solomon refers to as "The Minority with Faith." Charles William Eliot was one of these: his successor. President Lowell, was not, Eliot, Josiah Royce, William James, and Emily Balch all rejected the Ango-Saxon superiority theories of the restrictionists. As Mrs. Solomon says of Eliot...
...French Connection, a good film about cops, the heavy side of Dealing. Saxon 219 Tremont St. Daily...
Lower Premiums. The fire is being fanned by widespread public dissatisfaction with the system now in effect. That system is based on the Anglo-Saxon common law of torts (wrongs), under which someone must be proved "at fault" before a court can award damages. With the accident rate increasing, the job of establishing such proof has created a huge backlog of cases in the nation's courts. More than half the suits growing out of auto accidents take two years or longer to come to trial. All too often, that leaves victims to cope in the interim as best...