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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...know how Harvard feels on this subject; neither does Mr. Rice. Let us hear what Harvard has to say and not ask her to play the part of a clam. JOHN V. SPALDING...
Americanization as a process has its dangers. All of us are alive to the menace of an unassimilated foreign element; but the problem of making it over is not simple...
Between the Scylla of Radical Americanization and the Charybdis of Reactionary Americanization lies the only safe course the country can pursue, Radicalism disjoints, conservatism retards progress. The Americanism which most of us are prepared to support is not the monopoly of any political party; it is that element in all political parties which causes them to work--in so far as they do work--for the national benefit as they understand it. It is not learned entirely from books, nor can it all be put into words. Americanization has been defined as the "grafting of the best ideals...
...meetings as a testimonial of their respect and affection for his memory. From these is to spring a lasting memorial of his great services to the nation. Yale has already raised fifteen hundred dollars. Harvard's quota must surpass this figure. In contributing something, however small, each one of us can have the satisfaction of knowing that he is helping toward a permanent park at Sagamore Hill, the erection of a monument at Washington, and the endowment of "a great educational foundation to keep alive through study and teaching, the great ideals for which President Roosevelt stood...
...drive home to its representatives the idea that the majority must rule. The objection of many who decry chronological isolation is answered by those communities and industrial organizations which had daylight saving ordinances of their own in pre-war times and suffered not at all from the experience. Let us stand solidly behind Boston and Massachusetts in any action insuring for us those innumerable benefits which we have enjoyed during the past two summers...