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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wednesday evening Captain John Codman delivered a very interesting and witty lecture, in Sever 11, upon the "Iniquity of Protective Tariff," before an appreciative audience. President Eliot and Deputy Collector Fiske of the Custom House were present. The lecturer opened by saying that commerce, though bound down by chains, has done more than either science or literature for the progress of humanity. Having established our rights to think and worship, we now want liberty to trade. What would you say if Congress passed laws compelling ministers to use a certain form of argument? Yet law compels you to trade...
...long, tedious hours of grinding in the library, systematize and index the whole, and publish them in the form of book leaves. One of these leaves, containing four or eight pages, comes out two weeks or so after the lectures are delivered. At the end of the year, if bound together, they make a most valuable book. Last year the notes in the course on the constitutional history of the United States cost $8.50, and to any student of American politics a bound copy of them today would be worth fully that amount...
...assailed. It has now become a matter of honor with every Harvard student to lend the society his heartiest support in opposition to this foolish attack upon its interests and their own. The Co-operative Society may be only an experiment, but as such the students of Harvard are bound to give it every opportunity and all possible aid in proving its usefulness and justifying its establishment. If it fails it will fail because of other reasons than the puerile opposition of officious outsiders and busybodies...
Lost - A set of printed notes on the lectures in Chemistry I., bound in card boards. The finder will confer a favor by returning same to 16 Weld...
...Oberlin College, which the illiberal and often narrow policy of its faculty so frequently tends to diminish. As to the argument itself, against which the Review so eloquently musters the forces of its indignation, we have still to reiterate our belief in its essential truth, although we are bound to admit that its statement is too broad to be applied, in a literal interpretation, to the case of Oberlin. And, as for the other sins the Review lays at our door-sectional prejudice, lack of candidness, disingenuousness, and what not-we utterly repudiate any intent of harboring such qualities...