Word: barring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Another first place came to Harvard when J. B. Camp '15 cleared the bar at 12 feet and won the pole vault. L. G. Richards '16 and H. W. Johnstone, of Yale, were forced to divide three points, tieing at 11 feet, 9 inches. In an exhibition vault, Camp just missed clearing 12 feet, 7 inches, which would have set a new dual second...
...rebuttal, the negative repeated the statement often made during the debate, "Where immigration is most, unemployment is least." The literacy test, also, is obviously unfair in that it would bar 300,000 people when only 3,000 should be barred. There is absolutely no connection between the criminal and illiterate elements. Finally, figures and experience show that the southern foreigner can be assimilated, and that he can be educated in our schools so that he is not a drag on the community, which was claimed by the affirmative...
...affirmative maintained that the illiterate foreigner aggravated the social, economic and political problems of our country. The literacy test would go far to cure this, and would not bar out classes, as the negative claimed, but would affect the individual alone. Because of ignorance the immigrant goes to the slum, but leaves it as soon as he becomes more educated. By the literacy test, this would be done away with; wages would be increased; crime would be lessened, and politics improved
...advocate the literacy test because it will not only cut down numbers of an undesirable immigration, but will also bar out the undesirable immigrants. Facts and statistics show that the illiterate foreigner, regardless of nationality or origin, contributes more to crime, insanity, pauperism, and slums than his due proportion. The illiterate immigrant also shows a tendency to remain illiterate and hence cannot be easily assimilated. It is because he is a menace and drag to the country that advocates a test against him, which is merely a protection for the American citizen and the immigrant who is here already...
Mayer Frederick Gates '15, of Memphis, Term was unanimously re-elected captain of the University gymnastic team last evening. For two years Gates has been the mainstay of the team being especially proficient in the parallel bars and horizontal bar...