I find that a majority of the boys and girls attending there endeavoring to obtain an education are children of foreignborn parents. These parents. realizing their lack of education. grasp it immediately for their children. I am informed that in the College of the City of New York the parents of threefourths of the children are of foreign birth. Men on this floor have criticized the character of the citizenship of our city. We are proud of it. The leveling influence of our great publicschool system is doing more to solve this problem than all the laws we can place on the statute books. We want the strong. decent immigrant. We need him. We can assimilate him.
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