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...from the Graduate department were honored with elections on Wednesday evening. Henceforward it will be no more the Intercollegiate club, but the Graduate club, and as such it is expected to take its proper place among the permanent clubs of Harvard University. The officers of the club are: President, Mr. Siebert; vice-president, Dr. Markley; secretary, Mr. Roe; treasurer, Mr. Chittenden. Executive committee: Dr. Markley. chairman; Messrs. Setchell, Nields, Rich, Conger, Manley, Delabarre, Sabine, Roe, Ball...
About one hundred men assembled in Sever 11 to hear the Harvard Union debate last evening. The men were late in gathering and it was not until 7.45 that Mr. Dodge was able to call the meeting to order. The minutes of the last meeting were read by the secretary and adopted. Messrs. R. L. O'Brien L. S., and H. Hudson '90 were admitted as members of the Union. Three questions were submitted for a choice for the next meeting...
...last one was chosen. The debate on the question Resolved, That it is a benefit to the United States to receive immigrants at the present rate was opened by Mr. Higgins, L. S., for the affirmative. His address had three points. That under the present rate of immigration no harm could come to our generation from the land being unable to support the people. That the country was not developed enough now so that all classes of industry could lead into one another where they were situated. That as it took courage and energy for immigrants to come they must...
...Mr. Morton, '92 then spoke on the negative. He said that the immigrants were largely unskilled and illerate. That they came with false notions of our institutions, and that the tendency was by their large numbers to destroy our institutions rather than to be led into them. As a proof he gave that one class got into the country and then voted that another be kept...
...Mr. Torry, '90, spoke on the affirmative. In opening he showed that the illiteracy was not amongst the immigrants, but amongst the negroes and whites of the south. He spoke on the advantages of immigration under aesthetical, social and industrial heads, showing that many immigrants were artists; many were not more socialistic than some of our honored citizens; and that many were skilled mechanics...