Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first lecture in the University course for the education of teachers of the blind, the only one of its kind in America, will be held today at 3 o'clock in Room 3, Lawrence Hall, Kirkland St., Cambridge. The course is given by Professor E. E. Allen, lecturer in the School of Education, who is also director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown...
...very interesting observations in the current number of Foreign Affairs on the subject of increased tariff schedules. In the same magazine the Harvard economist is vigorously supported in his contention that the new high rates will react unfavorably to the United States. This support comes from the author of "America Comes of Age," the celebrated French economist, Andre Siegfried, who points out meaningly that Europe has become strong enough to retaliate against unduly high tariff measures. The analysis of Professor Taussig together with the intimations from France suggest that the present Congress has been busy sowing seeds which another generation...
Equally hard hit by the high tariff is the new export trade which America has built up since the war. One can only wonder what new adaptation of the old Mercantile Theory is taken to justify a policy of excluding the goods of a large customer who can in no other way pay for what he buys...
...unreasonable efforts to keep clean the public morals are unfortunately so, numerous that one folly more or less makes little difference, but the spectacle of a Bostonized United States is unpleasant and uninviting. It is by no means a wholly impossible outcome to the tendency which brought Prohibition to America...
...With conditions as they are today, however, the Harvard Athletic Association would have accomplished little by refusing to schedule games with the Military Academy when a dozen other institutions would willingly have taken the place thus left open. Surely some more powerful body than the National Students Federation of America should consider seriously a suggestion so potentially important as this reform...