Word: national
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Only within the last 30 years, said Mr. Sargent, have we come to realize that we are a nation of immigrants, for there are very few of us whose ancestors did not come from a foreign country. Until recently the greater part of our immigrants have been the hard-working, law-abiding people of Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, who have become assimilated with us as an important part of our nation. Lately, however, large numbers of Italians, Hungarians, and Russian Jews have become to this country; but we need not be alarmed, provided they are put to work...
...Captain of Industry to his Literary Friend," W. M. E. Perkins makes a strong plea for the life of action as against the life of contemplation. The captain of industry rather overshoots the mark. Few would agree with the assertion that "now, here in America, those who make this nation what it is, the greatest of world powers, turn their energies to commerce." This would exclude men like Roosevelt and several others, to whom posterity will doubtless grant at least a modest share in the making of present day America. The fundamental fallacy of the captain's reasoning...
Second place in the Magazine is given to an unsigned biographical sketch of the late Wendell Phillips Garrison, who was editor of the Nation from 1865 to 1906. The high service to American letters which the Nation has performed since its establishment, is shown to have been due in large measure to Mr. Garrison's scrupulous fidelity, his success in enlisting the friendly co-operation of a large and able staff of contributors, and his constant striving toward literary perfection in form and substance...
...interests which splits students up into groups on-grossed in their own pursuits and neither knowing nor caring about those of their fellows, and for the small rivalries of cliques and clubs. This spirit will be fostered by the prevalence of the idea "that Harvard is a little nation striving against other nations, and that, as such, she requires the support of all her citizens"--which a cynic might perhaps call the Ishmaelite conception of a University. To a more friendly judgment it indicates how completely the idea of intercollegiate competitions possesses--or obsesses--the minds of many students...
Harvard is privileged to pay tribute today to one of the most distinguished leaders of the Japanese nation. Baron Kuroki comes to us, not only as an able and successful general, but also as a progressive and constructive statesman, a representative of the character and ideals of the civilization of the East. In welcoming him here this afternoon, therefore, we shall have an opportunity to express our admiration for the energy and genius of the people he represents, as well as for his own personality and attainment...