EDITED BY

BYRON JOHNSON REES PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABRAHAM LINCOLN[1]

Theodore Roosevelt

AMERICAN TRADITION[2]

Franklin K. Lane

AMERICA'S HERITAGE[3]

Franklin K. Lane

ADDRESS AT THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS[4]

Calvin Coolidge

OUR FUTURE IMMIGRATION POLICY[8]

Frederic C. Howe

A NEW RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR[9]

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

MY UNCLE[10]

Alvin Johnson

WHEN A MAN COMES TO HIMSELF[11]

Woodrow Wilson

EDUCATION THROUGH OCCUPATIONS[12]

William Lowe Bryan

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III

IV

V

THE FALLOW[13]

John Agricola

WRITING AND READING[14]

John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL[15]

Bliss Perry

THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS[16]

Carl Becker

THE STRUGGLE FOR AN EDUCATION[18]

Booker T. Washington

ENTERING JOURNALISM[19]

Jacob A. Riis

BOUND COASTWISE[20]

Ralph D. Paine

THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE[23]

Burton J. Hendrick

TRAVELING AFOOT[24]

John Finley

OLD BOATS[25]

Walter Prichard Eaton

ZEPPELINITIS[26]

Philip Littell

FOOTNOTES