Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Club will give an international entertainment in Phillips Brooks House next Saturday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Twelve nations will be represented in this meeting which will be the climax of the year's work. A very interesting program has been arranged. Different members will give folk-songs and show intimate pictures of life in their respective countries. All members of the University are invited to come and bring their friends. Refreshments will be served...
...squad; next fall's football team--an "H" man, one of its best players; the track team --an almost sure point winner in the shorter runs; the CRIMSON -- two men about to be elected to the board, one of whom was twice eligible; the Lampoon--an officer; the Pudding show--one of its best features; the Senior Class officers...
...Barron, Jr., '14, running in the 220-yard dash, the University will probably secure a first in this event, but the secondary places in both the dashes will probably go to Cornell. Although A. L. Jackson '14 has not yet rounded into his usual good from, he will probably show up well in both hurdle events, as Cornell is unusually weak in this department...
...cause of bad conditions, this test would be no remedy. The majority of illiterate immigrants have not had the chance to learn, and so this test is neither one of intelligence or of ability to work. Illiterate men as a class are not all undesirable for other reasons. Statistics show that they are neither morally, mentally or physically below the average...
...advocate the literacy test because it will not only cut down numbers of an undesirable immigration, but will also bar out the undesirable immigrants. Facts and statistics show that the illiterate foreigner, regardless of nationality or origin, contributes more to crime, insanity, pauperism, and slums than his due proportion. The illiterate immigrant also shows a tendency to remain illiterate and hence cannot be easily assimilated. It is because he is a menace and drag to the country that advocates a test against him, which is merely a protection for the American citizen and the immigrant who is here already...