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...character, quality and type of the immigrant today are as good as those of any immigrants who have come to America. There is now a distinct need for the immigrant just as there has always been, and therefore we do not need an literacy test to cut down numbers. Further, we have better-means of assimilating the immigrant today than ever before and such a test is not needed to solve our assimilation problem...
...problems sufficiently to demand total restriction. Of the immigrants already on our shores, it is the immigrant of the old type, the type that came in greatest numbers 50 years ago, who contributes most to our problems. Since these races have a relatively low rate of illiteracy, the illiteracy test once effected, would not affect them much and hence our problem would in noways be lightened...
...political and social evils of immigration call for further restriction. The literacy test is the most logical means of securing this restriction because it is in aceord with the principles on which our past legislation has been founded, namely, the exclusion of the undesirables; it has immense popularity, being favored by practically all opponents of restriction; it is definite, practicable, easily applied and unavoidable. It requires an amount of preparation, which tends to make the immigrant appreciate his privileges in being permitted to enter, and his duty toward the country. It restricts immigration in the most logical way--by barring...
...further restriction of immigration is unnecessary. We have based our contentions on the fact that we have at the present time adequate laws to keep out the undesirable, but if a further restriction were necessary the proper means would not be an untried scheme such as the illiteracy test, but a more rigid enforcement of the existing laws. We object to the illiteracy test in that it fails in its very purpose of cutting down numbers, that it is uncertain in application, and cumbersome and expensive. We further object to the illiteracy test in that it discriminates against certain classes...
...students in Harvard College, except those who entered before 1910, must pass before the end of their second year a special oral examination, to test their power of translating either French or German. Any member of these classes who has not already passed this oral examination, and wishes to take it this month, must notify the Recorder, 4 University Hall, in writing, before Thursday, May 14, 1914. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...