Word: man
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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. The facts are that Baltimore is the only large city with a German quarter in the slums and this is the only quarter of Baltimore examined by the slum committee. We wish...
...gentlemen suggest two tests-the illiteracy test and the capitation tax. The first would shut out the most desirable class of immigrants. It does not discriminate between what the man knows and what he is. The capitation tax would exclude the very desirable and useful immigrants from Ireland. It is unnecessary for us to depart from our policy of free immigration to a narrow system of common exclusion...
...Princeton. He stated at the outset that Princeton would insist that this debate was over a question of fact, and that no mere assertions or theories would go unchallenged. Our present immigration restrictions, according to him, are founded upon an economic basis. This is rightly so. If a man comes to this country with an ability and a willingness to work, we can make no indictment against him. We have great undeveloped rescurces in this country that we must depend upon immigrants to develop. Our present restrictions are keeping out the most undesirable of possible immigrants. Since the recently enacted...
...VARSITY MANDOLIN CLUB.- Every man must be at the Colonial Club this evening at 8 o'clock sharp. Wear dark sack coats...
BOXING.- Do you want to take boxing lessons? If so there is no better man than Wm. S. Gordon, who has been appointed instructor at the Gymnasium. Lessons at Gymnasium or at rooms. Wm. S. Gordon, 74 Boylston street, Boston...