Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...White opened the rebuttal for the affirmative as follows: The gentleman on the negative has said that our law provides that all immigrants who become paupers within a year must be returned at the expense of the steamship lines which brought 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...
...White '99, in opening for Harvard, disclaimed any intention to argue against all immigration. The present laws, he said, are inadequate in that they do not exclude those whom they aim to exclude, and because they contain no provision for the exclusion of certain other undesirable immigrants. In the laws as they stand there is practically nothing to prevent idiots, insane persons, paupers and criminals from coming to this country by way of Canada. But even if these could be excluded, there are reasons why further restrictions should be imposed. In the first place, while the supply of public lands...
...Lincoln 1901, H. P. White '99, J. F. Wood '99, L. E. Wyman...
...Harvard debaters and the order in which they will speak, will be: F. O. White '99, R. T. Parke '98, and S. B. Rosenthal '98. The order in the rebuttal speeches will be the same. The Princeton debaters and the order in which they will speak both in the main and rebuttal speeches will be: N. S. Reeves '99, R. D. Dripps '98 and M. Lowrie...
Frank Owen White '99 of Boston, who will open the debate for Harvard, prepared for college at the Boston Latin School where he was prominent in military drill and in his studies. At graduation he won a Franklin medal for good scholarship. In his Freshman year he was alternate on the team which defeated the Yale Freshmen. Last year he was a regular speaker in the Harvard-Princeton debate, which Harvard won, and he also took part in several interclub debates. He was formerly secretary of the Harvard Union and is now a member of the University Debating Club. White...