Word: influx
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...difficult to realize the rapid concentration in cities which has taken place since the Civil War. This is partly due to the great immigration--sixteen and one-half millions in the same period. With overcrowding, and the influx of a body of people unused to free government, has come a depreciation of the intelligence of the suffrage, still further lowered by the creation of a class of industrial operatives whose task of monoto- nously repeating one small operation requires but small intellect...
...Munro, instructor in Government, will give the third of a series of weekly talks on "Some Problems of a Modern City," in Phillips Brooks House Parlor, this evening at 7 o'clock. Dr. Munro will speak on "City Problems Connected with the Alien Influx," showing the difficulties caused by foreign immigration...
...graduating classes in the College and Law School whose homes are in New York, offering them opportunities for political work in New York. No matter what a man's party may be he will be given an opening in the party of his choice, the Association believing that the influx of college men into politics will be for the good of the city. The Association is in coach with leading politicians in New York, who assist in finding places for college...
...total land area of the world, supports one-fourth of its population. At present the rate of increase of population in the United States is nearly twice as large as that of Europe, but the two are gradually approximating. He then went on to show that the heavy influx of immigrants into the United States had not deteriorated the population...
...interesting characteristics of the Filipino. The daily life of an American in Manila and the needs to which the surrounding conditions give rise will, however, be the main theme. Mr. Talbot is much interested in the development of the islands and takes a very optimistic view of the influx of Americans, of whom there is now a colony of from 700 to 800 in the city of Manila...