Identifier: schoolphysiology08bost (find matches)
Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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on Irving,and Sir Walter Scott made her the heroine of-his famous novel Ivanhoe.!& The New Orleans colony of Jews is repre-sented in history by the Hon. Judah P. Benja- religionists of America. Though it seemed atfirst as if the Russian Jews could not be assimi-lated into American life, the event has provedthat at least a fair proportion of them, and prac-tically all their children, are rising iDto citizen-ship. The most earnest effort was directed toward SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL 147 withdrawing these immigrants from congested from casting its shadow over Ludlow street to add to its gloom ; it is the one quality thatredeems; it dignifies the darkest slums ofJewtown. Chinese. quarters and distributing them in agriculturalsections. But in spite of all this good workhundreds of thousands of the race are herdedtogether in indescribable wretchedness and deg-radation. The sweater and the sweat shophand are recruited from their ranks. The task A mirage of Turanian civilization, a shadow
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Types of Chinese Accountants. •of uplifting them is the greater when it is re-membered that these immigrants have come tothis side with strange language and manners,without trade or knowledge that can be adaptedfor use. But such is the thrift and energy ofthis despised race that already the immigrantsof 1881 are beginning to assist their fellowcountrymen. The many trade schools, in-dustrial institutions and free Hebrew schoolsestablished by Jews in the United States areco-operating splendidly with our public schoolsto make the next generation intelligent, right-minded and self-supporting. The poorest Hebrew knows—the poorer heis the better he knows it—that knowledge ispower, and power as the means of getting on inthe world that has spurned him so long, is what his soul yearns for Day and night schools are crowded with his children who keepfairly abreast of their more favored playmatestill it comes to mental arithmetic, when theyleave them behind with a bound. It is sur-prising t

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