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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Some Aspects of the Tariff Question" is the title of a book by Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, which is now in preparation at the University Press, and will be issued at an early date. This book is, in the opinion of able economists, the most important work on international trade by an American scholar. The subject has really not been treated in any new light since the time of John Stuart Mill, and a study such as this has been long awaited by students of the subject. The author is a great authority...
Professor Taussig's book begins with some introductory chapters on questions of principle, particularly with reference to the doctrines of protection of young industries. It then proceeds to a detailed examination of the history of the present condition of certain important industries. Sugar is the first of these considered. The treatment starts with a discussion of sugar production, and of the domestic cane and beet resources. The sugar refining industry is next taken up, and finally is considered the Sugar Trust. Iron and steel come next, and successive chapters on this industry deal with the general progress of the industries...
...Club has selected as its spring play a musical farce entitled "Robin, the Robber." The book is by P. Blackmur '15, the music by M. F. Hall '15 and B. H. Poucher '16 and the lyrics by B. S. Davison '16. The scene of the play is laid in a mythical kingdom in southern Europe and the story deals with the love affair of a robber chieftain and the princess of the country, which involves many amusing and surprising incidents...
...enough in style, though a little perfunctory; Mr. Thacher Nelson's verse, "After Rain," which has some good lines but some inapt words (does a road sough, for instance?); and a thoughtful, well-written article by Mr. Earle Stafford, "Humanity and Sanity," on General von Bernhard's now famous book...
...Seniors who wish to compete the book plate design for the Class album are asked to submit their design to J. S. Fleek '15, Matthews 5 as soon as possible. The drawings are to be a fictitious name, and must be accompained by an envelope in which is enclosed the real name of the designer. The competition will close on March