Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chairs of the Edinburgh Medical faculty are each worth $17,000 a year. The professorships at Glasgow in Greek Latin and Mathematics are each worth about $9,000 yearly. These figures suggest the propriety at least of increased salaries in American colleges...
...interests of American trusts to lower prices when possible. (a) where prices are at first increased it is due to a reaction from ruinous competition. Remarks of Hon. F. B. Thurber to the N. Y. Senate...
...immigrants come to America if they want to, and let them do for the Westwhat they have done for the East. Mr. C. C. Ramsay, so. second on the affirmative, said that mob-violence and strikes fully testify to the character of immigrants. The immigrants are low and do American no possible good; moreover, their object is not to benefit our country, but to get as much as possible out of it and return to their native land. Again the capacity for labor and the character of an immigrant regulate his value to this country; now as these immigrants...
...negative, said that owing to the excellent results of unrestricted immigration, it would be a poor policy to put immigration under restriction. Moreover, it would be far more advisable to send agents to Europe to solicit immigration, so as to enable this country to compete with South American states in their inducements to immigrants. The question arises; How can the natural resources, great as they are, be employed, if we restrict a steady flow of men from Europe, who have done so much towards discovering these resources...
...Polo grounds in New York with the New York league team. Leaving there, a game will be played the next day, April 4, at Philadelphia with the Philadelphia league team. On the following day the last game will be played at Philadelphia with the Athletics of the American Association league. Returning to Boston the team will play on Monday, the 8th, against the Bostons. This is the first Easter trip which the nine has ever taken, and it is likely to be productive of much good. Yale has already played two games and on the spring trip the nine will...