Word: southern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Geological Excursion to the Coastal Plain of Southern Maine, conducted by Mr. J. M. Boutwell. Open to all members of the University. Leave India Wharf for Portland at 7 p. m. Take bicycles if possible. Members will please advise Mr. J. M. Boutwell, 10 Weld Hall...
...Dripps summed up for Princeton. He reasserted the demand for the unskilled laborer and the necessity that there shall be a surplus of labor if there is always to be the proper supply. Better to have too many men than not enough, and better to have Southern Europeans in the sweat shops than Germans or Americans. The affirmative is arguing for the ideal system. We demand that they shall give us one definite method for a greater restriction...
...Parke '98, the second speaker for Harvard, said in part; The eensus of 1890 shows that a large part of the recent immigration from Southern Europe, which is mostly illiterate, lacking in funds, and unskilled, settles near the Atlantic seaboard, and congests unduly in our cities. According to the great slum report, from 77 to 95 per cent of the slum population of our great cities is foreign. From three to seventy times as many of the foreigners in the slums are, however, from Southern as from Northern Europe...
...padrone and sweating systems, which can be traced primarily to the influx of too many needy and incompetent Southern European immigrants are among the serious social evils, brought about by this congestive tendency. The growth of the padrone system, founded upon the dependence, not the indepennence, of the individual is far too threatening to the spirit of our institutions to be endured. In the sweating system we trace the relation of cause and effect between the great and increasing overflow of incompetent and undesirable immigration from Southeastern Europe and the rise and extension of our serious evils. The slums...
...Dripps was the second speaker for Princeton. He took up the question of the desirability of the present tide of immigration from Southern Europe. It is claimed that these immigrants are so extremely undesirable that something should be done to keep them out, even if we do not strike at any other class. As a matter of fact, however, these people are desirable. It is claimed that they drift to the almshouses and slums. From the actual statistics that have been gathered, however, it is seen that the Italians and the Hungarians do not constitute such an alarming proportion...