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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...White opened the rebuttal for the affirmative as follows: The gentleman on the negative has said that our law provides that all immigrants who become paupers within a year must be returned at the expense of the steamship lines which brought them. Yet over 9000 paupers come by rail from Canada every year and are not returned. He also said that steamship lines are required to post in all cities of Europe our restrictions on immigration. Yet by their own admission a very large number are turned back every year, showing conclusively that foreigners do not read our regulations before...
...said, are inadequate in that they do not exclude those whom they aim to exclude, and because they contain no provision for the exclusion of certain other undesirable immigrants. In the laws as they stand there is practically nothing to prevent idiots, insane persons, paupers and criminals from coming to this country by way of Canada. But even if these could be excluded, there are reasons why further restrictions should be imposed. In the first place, while the supply of public lands to accommodate the new arrivals has decreased, the number of immigrants has vastly increased since 1820. The cheapening...
...them, but by cleansing those places and insisting upon such sanitary regulations as will preclude the spread of disease. The slums furnish us with a class of very valuable laborers, and an inmate of a slum is not per se undesirable. The majority of the immigrants that have come to this country in the past have been poor, but they have become easily assimilated to American conditions of life and habit and have become good citizens. We should not, therefore, exclude further those who are coming...
Beginning with yesterday afternoon the band will hold a series of rehearsals preparatory to playing at the Yale and Princeton baseball games, and probably at the track games with Yale on May 14. Hitherto the band has always been a half passive organization that has come to life only for important athletic events and for Class Day. This year it hopes also to give a few yard concerts...
...announced yesterday, the purpose of the meeting is to raise money enough to give the cruiser Harvard a set of colors, and in order that they may be purchased immediately, it is important that a sufficient sum be raised on the spot. To this end all are asked to come prepared to contribute. Those who can afford it will be expected to give at least fifty cents, and others according to their means...