Word: affections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wages can only be produced by changes in the amount of capital distributed in wages, or by changes in the number of persons competing for work-Sumner, Protective Taxes. (1) But since the number of persons competing for work is not changed by high protection, if high protection affects wages at all it must affect them through the amount of capital distributed in wages. (2) Yet protection diminishes the amount of capital distributed in wages for two reasons: (a) The productiveness of industry being less, the product to be divided between capital and labor is less-Wells' Practical Economics...
...with the permanent trend of affairs." But "the greatest advantage of economic study is precisely in the training which it gives in taking this wider point of view. Political economy will not help its students to prosper; but it will give them a better understanding of the forces which affect the prosperity of the community;" and will help instill into them "an impartial public spirit...
...played this week before the contest with Yale. The nine by its work on Saturday, showed its ability to play a strong fielding game, but practice in batting is much needed. It is to be hoped, however, that the failure to play this game will in no wise affect the result of the game on Saturday. The nine should win the game on that day, and the college is expecting to see them victorious...
...purpose of getting well under way by the time the team began that the candidates were kept in Cambridge to train during the larger part of the spring recess. This additional amount of practice was surely of some benefit, and it seems hardly possible that the good affect should be shown later on in the season if not now. A majority of the match games to be played are with strong teams and, unless the material is hopelessly poor, the men ought surely to show vast improvement in the next two or three weeks. Unless this improvement appears there...
...regulations some attention will be paid to method, and avoidance of the crowding of work and its attendant worry and strain. The best recommendations of the Overseers have been adopted; those that have in view better and more regular work. Conscientious, hard-working men they will not affect to any degree, but they will get work out of men who have heretofore done nothing...