Word: southern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University lacrosse team suffered its second defeat of the season at the 0hands of the Johns Hopkins players, the champions of the southern division of the Intercollegiate Lacrosse League, in the Stadium last Saturday by the score of 5 to 4. Captain Brundage and Nightingale starred for Harvard...
...University lacrosse team will finish its season with a game against Johns Hopkins on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Maryland team defeated the University on the Southern trip by the score of 11 to 3, but little practice had been held up that time, the game being Harvard's first contest...
First we cannot assimilate him. Assimilation is based on likeness of standpoint and knowledge of a language. Since the 35.6 per cent of the immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe is illiterate, illiteracy is the reason for poor assimilation...
...debate, "Where immigration is most, unemployment is least." The literacy test, also, is obviously unfair in that it would bar 300,000 people when only 3,000 should be barred. There is absolutely no connection between the criminal and illiterate elements. Finally, figures and experience show that the southern foreigner can be assimilated, and that he can be educated in our schools so that he is not a drag on the community, which was claimed by the affirmative...
...insanity among the foreign born. In the economic field the immigrant has lowered the standard of living, retarded the rise in vages, and added to the problem of the unemployed. The illiteracy test will materially better these conditions by excluding a large proportion of the unskilled laborers from Southern and Eastern--Europe...