Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Again it is said that the Tariff stimulates over-production. but it is a very difficult thing to say that we have over-production. This is said to be the cause of hard times, but it is in fact hard times that often causes this overproduction. America has no monopoly of hard times. Free Trade countries suffer as much as we. The Tariff, therefore, cannot be charged with this common evil. If we remove this protection to our industries, we make America the dumping ground for Europe's surplus manufactures. Protection is antagonistic to commerce, we are told...
...side of the reading room were alcoves, filled to repletion with still more books, while on the wall hung portraits of the past benefactors of the university, to whose munificence the students of Harvard owe this magnificent collection of volumes, forming the largest and most complete college library in America, Though it was early in the afternoon, we noticed that the library was gradually growing dark, and that the students were slowly, and, as it seemed, reluctantly, leaving the building. What was our surprise to learn that no artificial light whatever is allowed in the building! It is certainly...
...their families come not merely as competitors but as customers. They are welcome. Look at the since 1861. The large accumulations in New England Savings banks, and the success of Building Associations in Pennsylvania, testify to this. The lecturer in closing spoke eloquently of the happiness which laborers in America enjoy, as contrasted with the misery of their brothers in Europe...
...Harvardiana," whose life even the efforts of a man who was destined to be one of the greatest literary men of our day, James Russell Lowell, could not prolong beyond four years. The next to enter the arena was the "Harvard Magazine," one of whose first editors was America's greatest preacher, Phillips Brooks. This magazine was published with varying success for a decade, and in 1864 came to an untimely...
...Europe, (2) The Political and Constitutional History of England, and (3) of the U. S., a including special seminar for the study of Constitutional Questions in English and American History. There is also a special seminar in American Finance and in methods of Local Government in Europe and America. In Economic Science there are six courses including one on the History of Industrial Society and on Taxation (by Judge Cooley). The subject of Political Ethics embraces courses on the Theory of Rights by Judge Cooley, on the Philosophy of Government (views of Aristotle, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hegel, Spencer, Mulford...