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ba0efd0 In 1845, the Bunker Hill Aurora warned that foreigners were landing at the rate of "13,400 a month!!! 466 a day!!! 19 an hour!!!" Three years later, the same paper declared: "Our country is literally being overrun with the miserable, vicious, and unclean paupers of the old country." -- J. Anthony Lukas
79aa87c Like other booster papers across the West, the weekly Tribune was a major instrument for town building, even if--or precisely because--it "sometimes represented things that had not yet gone through the formality of taking place."39 Western newspapers, like western railroads, often ran well ahead of settlement--a process that, in many bleak locales, was still waiting to happen." J. Anthony Lukas
e096344 the school environment [is] to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born. J. Anthony Lukas