Word: class
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Reeves who opened the rebuttal for the negative said in substance: The affidavits of individual paupers have little force. To administer the immigration laws on the Canadian line would require that it be on almost a war footing. The affirmative must prove that there exists a class which must be kept out and that any restrictions which may be proposed would do more good than harm. They have proposed two tests. The illiterate test would shut out a large number from northern and western Europe. The educational test would shut out 44,000 each year from Southeastern Europe. This would...
...gentlemen suggest two tests-the illiteracy test and the capitation tax. The first would shut out the most desirable class of immigrants. It does not discriminate between what the man knows and what he is. The capitation tax would exclude the very desirable and useful immigrants from Ireland. It is unnecessary for us to depart from our policy of free immigration to a narrow system of common exclusion...
Matthew Lowrie '98, lives in Warrior's Mark, Pa. He also prepared at Lawrenceville, graduating in the class of '94. In Clio Hall he won the Freshman Declamation Contest and Sophomore Prize Debate. Last year he won first prize in the general competitive debate in Hall, was chosen by his class to be its Washington's Birthday Orator, and won the Junior Oratorical Contest at Commencement. This year he won the second disputation prize in the Baird Contest and has been elected Class Orator. He represented Princton in the recent Yale Debate and will represent Clio Hall in the Lynde...
Nathaniel Smith Reeves '99, lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. He prepared for college at the Brooklyn High School. Since entering college he has distinguished himself in Hall work. In freshman year he won second prize in the Whig Hall competitive debate and won the Class of 1876 Prize Debate on Washington's Birthday, 1897. He was a member of the victorious team in the Yale Debate...
...ALREADY arrangements have been made with Cook, the Class Day Caterer, for serving some of the spreads this coming Class Day. They have special facilities for handling large spreads, at reasonable prices...