Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Matthew Lowrie made the last opening speech for Princeton and the negative. A large part of his argument was intended to show that the Italian race is not undesirable as a whole, and not a menace to our institutions. In only four cities, he declared, have investigations of the slums been made, and these investigations have all been entirely overestimated. In New York there is supposed to be a slum population of 360,000 but the investigation took in only 26,000. This is a debate of facts, not of theories...
...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 coming. The negative claims that we will have no one to do our dirty work. There is always enough unskilled labor. Man is naturally unskilled. The negative has claimed that the slums of Baltimore show a large percentage of Germans...
...results thus far show that interest in the series is this season much more stable than last. Although starting with the same number of entries there has this year been but one withdrawal from the series, and that before any games were played, while last season there were several instances of nines dropping out after their first defeat, and causing a general mixup in the arrangement of games. Under the new system no inconvenience could be caused by any withdrawals, as the nines below would simply move up in the list, but in spite of this it is gratifying...
...Undertakers were given the game aginst the Kitty Dames, scheduled for yesterday afternoon, as the latter did not show up. On Norton's Field yesterday afternoon the Jumbos defeated the Cold Hands 22-15, in a seven inning game; the Pearlines beat the Spaniards 12-8, and the Baby McKees defeated the Reconcentrados in five innings...
Last evening in Harvard 1, Professor William Knight, the eminent Wordsworth scholar of St. Andrews, Scotland, delivered his second and last lecture before the University. He took as his subject, "Poetry and Science," and went on to show how some aspects and phases need poetry for explanation and some science. The audience was large and appreciative...