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Page 5 - Newfoundland, the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Canal Zone, or an independent country of Central or South America, and his wife, and his unmarried children under...
Page 21 - I will venture to affirm, that what is commonly called the technical part of legislation, is incomparably more difficult than what may be styled the ethical. In other words, it is far easier to conceive justly what would be useful law, than so to construct that same law that it may accomplish the design of the lawgiver.
Page 23 - I see that no one has passed here " In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. " Well," he mumbled at last, " Doubtless there are other roads.
Page 3 - I shall confine myself, however, to education in the narrower sense ; the culture which each generation purposely gives to those who are to be its successors, in order to qualify them for at least keeping up, and if possible for raising, the level of improvement which has been attained.
Page 23 - The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here "In a long time.
Page 5 - States, who is returning from a temporary visit abroad; (d) an immigrant who continuously for at least two years immediately preceding the time of his application for admission to the United States has been and who seeks to enter the United States solely for the purpose of carrying on the vocation of minister of any religious denomination, or professor of a college, academy, seminary or university, and his wife, and his unmarried children under 18 years of age, if accompanying or following to join...
Page 8 - There is no way by which we can make anyone feel that it is a blessed and splendid thing to be an American, unless we ourselves are aglow with the sacred fire — unless we interpret Americanism by our kindness, our courage, our generosity, our fairness.
Page 13 - ... No gurgling dips In flowing streams To naiad laughter. Metreless brown hands Shaping limp tortillas From grocery flour. Lost the old tuned Spat! Spat! Of pestled corn. Fierce gas flames Scorching frijoles. No long soft glows Of charcoal, fanned To long slow thoughts. Behold that once-school master, Slight-built and scholarly, Nodding, workworn, Over Spanish poems.
Page 3 - You do not educate a man by telling him what he knows not, but by making him what he was not.
Page 8 - ... is one of humanity. But just as there is no way by which the breath of life can be put into a man's body, once it has gone out, so there is no manner by which, with all our wills, we can make an American out of a man who is not inspired by our ideals, and there is no way by which we can make anyone feel that it is a blessed and splendid thing to be an American, unless we are ourselves aglow with the sacred fire, unless we interpret Americanism by our kindness, our courage, our generosity, our...