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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Shaler said briefly: We come to the graves of those who gave their lives to save the state from ruin, not with sorrow but with hope. The dead no longer are ours; they belong to history. We now think only of their value to the state. They did not give their lives to win our sorrow or to gain the fame of posterity; all that they gave they gave for their country. They were indeed men of arms. The Union soldiers did not take up arms for war's sake, but for the sole reason that there...
...said some weeks ago, there are three alternatives which present fair possibilities of success: compulsory training with credit given, compulsory without, or an elective course with, credit. Much would naturally depend on their administration, but we believe that any one of these systems could be carried on her with good results. Between a compulsory and an elective system, we should favor the compulsory; since, as the aim is not to bind everybody down to a single form of physical culture but to give credit for healthful exercise in a variety of forms and merely make sure that a man gets...
...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...
...Rosenthal '98, the last Harvard speaker, took up and carefully considered the evils threatening our republican institutions from the present influx of ignorant and vicious foreigners. It is more important, said he, that we should protect these institutions than that we should seek to benefit the ill-conditioned and unfortunate people of Europe. Whereas, for the first fifty or sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, our population was augmented almost entirely by people who had had experience in self-government, today the additions come from countries where the people are degraded and the democratic idea hardly exists...
...closing, Rosenthal said that to remedy the evils which exist the affirmative offered several plans, any one of which would be practical. An educational test, a capitation tax, or the requirement that the immigrant be a skilled laborer, would decrease the number of undesirable immigrants who come to the United States...