If the future of New England is to be as bright as its past, New Englanders of the old stock must rid themselves of narrow racial prejudices, Dr. Claude M. Fuess, headmaster of Phillips Academy, Andower, told the Boston Congregation Club at its Forefathers’ Night.
“What the Yamkee needs is reinvigoration,” Dr. Fuess admonished. “If he remains isolated he is likely to become like the southern plantation owner in ‘Gone With the Wind.’ We should not avoid the melting pot, for as it boils over we shall have new Websters and Adamses to defend our liberties, even though they beer Polish, Italian and Jewish names.”
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