Produced by Matt Whittaker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) *************** Transcriber's Notes: In the Woodrow Wilson selection, the word 'altrusion' was changed to 'altruism' based on consultation with the original text from which the passage was taken for this book. 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