Chapter I: Front Matter

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In the Jacob Riis selection, the phrase "It it none too fine yet" was replaced with "It is none too fine yet" after consultation with the original text from which the passage was taken for this book.

Other minor typos were also corrected. Hyphenation was left consistent with how it appears in the book. ***************

MODERN
AMERICAN PROSE
SELECTIONS

EDITED BY

BYRON JOHNSON REES
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE
1920

THE PLIMPTON PRESS
NORWOOD MASS U. S. A.

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi

_Abraham Lincoln_ Theodore Roosevelt 3

_American Tradition_ Franklin K. Lane 8

_America's Heritage_ Franklin K. Lane 17

_Address at the College of the Holy Cross_ Calvin Coolidge 25

_Our Future Immigration Policy_ Frederic C. Howe 31

_A New Relationship between Capital and Labor_ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 42

_My Uncle_ Alvin Johnson 48

_When a Man Comes to Himself_ Woodrow Wilson 53

_Education through Occupations_ William Lowe Bryan 68

_The Fallow_ John Agricola 81

_Writing and Reading_ John Matthews Manly and
Edith Rickert 87

_James Russell Lowell_ Bliss Perry 94

_The Education of Henry Adams_ Carl Becker 109

_The Struggle for an Education_ Booker T. Washington 119

_Entering Journalism_ Jacob A. Riis 128

_Bound Coastwise_ Ralph D. Paine 135

_The Democratization of the Automobile_
Burton J. Hendrick 145

_Traveling Afoot_ John Finley 157

_Old Boats_ Walter Prichard Eaton 165

_Zeppelinitis_ Philip Littell 177

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