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...immigration laws on the Canadian line would require that it be on almost a war footing. The affirmative must prove that there exists a class which must be kept out and that any restrictions which may be proposed would do more good than harm. They have proposed two tests. The illiterate test would shut out a large number from northern and western Europe. The educational test would shut out 44,000 each year from Southeastern Europe. This would cause a vacancy in the labor market and skilled laborers would be forced downward and be compelled to do unskilled labor...
...people from Southeastern Europe have not benefitted the country. They have overstocked the unskilled labor market and lowered the standard of living, especially in the mining regions where English-speaking miners have been forced into destitution and misery. The affirmative does not present a capitation or an educational test alone, but an alternative one which will allow skilled laborers to enter. This will satisfy the economic need of the country, for as C. D. Wright says, the demand for unskilled labor is on the decrease. We must consider the social life of our people, not merely economic production...
...commended for their patriotic enthusiasm, but it seems possible that the mass of young college bred men can prove more useful if they are less impetuous. The war has not, as yet, in the eyes of the administration, assumed proportions which present immediate enlistment as the test of patriotism. It rather presents the possibility of the future necessity of enlistment, and is a warning to prepare for such emergency. It the war prove of short duration, such enlistment will not be necessary; if of long, then the service of those who today seek to prepare themselves for the possibility, will...
Today's races on the basin will be the most important of the preliminary athletic events of the spring. They will show the practical results of the busy term of preparatory training which has just come to an end, and will serve as the crucial test of fitness for the 'Varsity boat...
...WRIGHT.STRENGTH TEST.- The strength test contest closes April 29, not April 15 as previously announced...