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...discrimination" of the Johnson bill. Citizens of foreign birth likewise protest against the exclusion of their countrymen. Politically this results in opposition to the bill from the representatives of urban districts such as New York, in which the foreign born population is largely concentrated. It also presents a problem to the Republican Party-the possibility of losing New York's electoral votes this year on account of the "foreign born vote." The Japanese Government has protested the provision of the new bill: "No alien ineligible to citizenship shall be admitted into the United States," which is practically aimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Japanese, Italians | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...Program will feature Edouard Benes* (Foreign Minister of Czecho-Slovakia) as speaker, immigration as a problem. Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild of New York University will lead the immigration discussion. Other Round Table leaders will be: Lionel Curtis, of London; William S. Culbertson, of the Federal Tariff Commission; Boris A. Bakhmeteff, former Russian ambassador; J. A. V. MacMurray of the State Department; Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Director General of the Pan-American Union; A. A. Young, Harvard Professor; Sir Paul Virograd-off, Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILLIAMSTOWN: Serious Discussion | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

With the ever increasing recognition of the value of a Harvard School of Business Administration training there had developed an acute problem of limitation of facilities. In part it has been solved by use of college lecture halls before the traditional hour for college classes, at some inconvenience to Business School lecturers and students. It is this necessity for complete utilization of available equipment that has fostered the innovation of February to February classes, the first of which finishes its two year course this month. Though novel, this practice is not to be condemned except...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INNOVATION | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...cloisters of the universities and at the conferences of college presidents. Even the newspapers, which President Angell says "frequently exaggerate" the importance of these games, understand full well the signifificance of the present tendencies and they have not hesitated to remind the educational leaders of the country of the problem which they must meet sometime and probably in the not very distant future. It is distinctly an event to read in the annual report of the head of one of the greatest of American universities, and one famous for its athletic achievements, such a paragraph as this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

...greatest domestic problem before our Nation today is "Shall the Constitution of the United States be obeyed?" The Scofflaw says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/18/1924 | See Source »