Word: said
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gibbons '89, opening the debate for the affirmative, said that, whereas in former years immigration had been a source of great benefit to this country at present owing to the change in the character of the immigrants the contrary was the result; formerly the immigrants were respectable people, at present they are the scum of Europe. The evils caused by indiscriminately unrestricted immigration are numerous, The large majority of the present immigrants are degraded, lazy, and ignorant and are rapidly filling up our poor houses and gaols. Thus they become a burden to the tax-payers. Again on economic grounds...
...Clarke, L. S. opening for the negative, said that the present immigration laws, if enforced will suffice to keep paupers, invalids, lunatics and contract laborers out of this country. To shut out immigration by further legislation would be against the principles of our nation. The civil evils caused by immigration are merely the "measles and the mumps', of our infant country, and must not be taken into consideration if we remember that immigrants have proven the back bone of our country, and that they have made our country what it is. Let immigrants come to America if they want...
...vigor; and the strain which men put upon themselves in active business or professional life is now so great that, unless they faithfully develop their physical resources as a matter of fidelity to their own selves, they constantly impair their vitality and consume their strength. With all that is said for athletics among the younger men it is believed that their necessity among the older men is very imperfectly understood, and that the physical exercise of men in middle life might be increased many fold without bringing them up to the standard of a well balanced physical and mental life...
...George A. Gordon preached as Appleton Chapel last evening. He found his text in I Thessalonians 5: 19. "Quench not the spirit." He said that every right young person stands on the threshold of life in admiration and awe. The vastness and solemnity of the structure before him, and the instinct sympathy of the young with the divine thought, unite to rouse reverence in him. If this spirit were permanent there would never be any gratifying of the lusts of the flesh. But as we grow old, we lose our delicate susceptibility to the breathing spirit of God. We quench...
About fifteen men assembled yesterday afternoon in 33 Mathews for the purpose of organizing a photographic society amongst the students of Harvard University. Mr. C. L. B. Withrow, L. S., as temporary chairman, briefly stated the object of such a society and said that the faculty would surely countenance it; moreover, the corporation would probably grant the use of a room in Sever hall to be used as a dark room. Mr. W. M. Turner, '91, and Mr. J. E. Ball, L. S., proposed a constitution, taking as a model the constitution of the Boston Camera Club. This was adopted...