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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first Freshman-Sophomore debate will be held Monday evening, May 16, at 7.30 in Fogg Lecture Room. The Sophomores will have the affirmative and the Freshmen the negative of the question, "Resolved, That the United States should abandon its policy of international isolation." The Sophomore speakers will be R. D. Crane, E. E. Sargeant, J. A. Richards, and A. L. Richards, alternate. The Freshman speakers will be J. C. Mangan, D. C. Hirsch, J. H. A. Symonds, and V. Custis, alternate. The judges will be Professor G. P. Baker, Professor E. Cummings and Mr. J. J. Hayes. Dean...
...annual election of officers of the Cercle Francais at the Colonial Club last night, resulted as follows: President, R. L. Hoguet '99; vice-president, E. L. Dudley 1900; secretary, H. B. Stanton 1900; treasurer, J. W. Frothingham...
Parke's clear-cut and deliberate arguments were the most convincing of those offered by the Harvard men. The best speech as to form was made by S. B. Rosenthal '98 in his opening arguments for Harvard. For Princeton the most effective speaker was R. D. Dripps, whose delivery was free from the indirect and rather too assertive mannerisms of the other...
...R. T. Parke '98, the second speaker for Harvard, said in part; The eensus of 1890 shows that a large part of the recent immigration from Southern Europe, which is mostly illiterate, lacking in funds, and unskilled, settles near the Atlantic seaboard, and congests unduly in our cities. According to the great slum report, from 77 to 95 per cent of the slum population of our great cities is foreign. From three to seventy times as many of the foreigners in the slums are, however, from Southern as from Northern Europe...
...R. D. Dripps was the second speaker for Princeton. He took up the question of the desirability of the present tide of immigration from Southern Europe. It is claimed that these immigrants are so extremely undesirable that something should be done to keep them out, even if we do not strike at any other class. As a matter of fact, however, these people are desirable. It is claimed that they drift to the almshouses and slums. From the actual statistics that have been gathered, however, it is seen that the Italians and the Hungarians do not constitute such an alarming...