Word: racialization
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...will be welcomed, not merely as an ecclesiastical visitor and by those of his faith and racial origin, but as one of the great characters of the Old World, where he is popularly known, it is said, as "the best-loved man in Northern Europe." He has no temporal power of office, but he has a real temporal as well as spiritual power of personality and of scholarship which has been felt throughout a considerable stretch of the earth almost as wide as the reach of his Viking forebears, who penetrated not only westward to the edges of America...
...problem of limitation of numbers apparently blooms perennially at Harvard. Hardly has the ghost of racial discrimination been laid to rest, when a new speckle arises provoked by the registration of 930 men in the Freshman class. When the enrollment figures for the entering class rise in three years from 621 to 930, no question of classification of transfers can after the fundamental fact that the size of the student body is increasing at a dangerously rapid rate...
Wholesale penalties at prominent colleges form almost as good newspaper copy as talk of entrance limitation on racial grounds, and Yale has suffered in the same way if not in the same degree as Harvard. Moreover, by actions which smack of boarding school discipline, Yale has laid herself open to ridicule, just as Harvard laid herself open to attack by emphasizing a phase of entrance limitation which could not accord with American ideas of education...
...Nearly five years have passed since the close of the most devastating of wars. The earth is still reeling like a drunken man. The inhabitants thereof are bereft of reason by the poison gas of racial antagonisms in a world that was nearly destroyed by hate, and is seeking to save itself by hate, and Israel is the greatest sufferer in these distracted days...
...feature of the convention was a speech by Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty, in which he challenged the Ku Klux Klan and other K. of C. detractors. He declared that the K. of C. would combat all combinations which seek to inject religious or racial bias into governmental or social life. He then sketched the vast educational work of his order: hospital work for 30,000 disabled soldiers; national correspondence school for members of the order, furnishing tuition at cost; and the Italian Welfare program, carried on under the auspices of the Vatican...