After five years : the quinquennial record of the class of 1908, Princeton university . Ed Toland—(steady please) Jim Haulenbeek—the cup that cheers could to see things through their eyes. Everywhere I got a big welcome—except in some parts of Hungary where the police suspected me to be apolitical agitator or an agent for emigration and ran me out of town. Butthe people, most of them, had never before seen a sure-enough American,and they were all curiosity to see what sort of a creature he was, and theycertainly killed all sorts of fatted geese for my benefit. Everywhere I foundthe ties with A
After five years : the quinquennial record of the class of 1908, Princeton university . Ed Toland—(steady please) Jim Haulenbeek—the cup that cheers could to see things through their eyes. Everywhere I got a big welcome—except in some parts of Hungary where the police suspected me to be apolitical agitator or an agent for emigration and ran me out of town. Butthe people, most of them, had never before seen a sure-enough American,and they were all curiosity to see what sort of a creature he was, and theycertainly killed all sorts of fatted geese for my benefit. Everywhere I foundthe ties with America and the interest in things American very strong. In some places nearly everyone I met had either been in America or hadsome relative there. Riding in the train third class I could hear the peasantstalking about America, and discussing its good and bad points. Once Iheard a man talking Slovak but swearing in English, the first sign ofassimilation. ?Once I ran across a man who had just returned from America for avisit. It was in one of the most forlorn villages I saw, a
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