ABSTRACT
in 1917 richard campbell, united states commissioner of naturalization, called foreign-speaking aliens within a community "fester spots on the body politic" of that community. 1 By the following year his hysteria had mounted to the point where he not only advocated the elimination of the teaching of any language other than English from the secondary schools, but also suggested that the teaching of Central European tongues in college for scientific use was not valid since most scientific research of any consequence was being done in America rather than in Europe. 2
