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...cage itself is in good condition. Captain Willard has caused to be hung around the wire sides of the cage a thick cotton cloth. The benefits derived are two-fold. The light thereby is kept within the cage, an essential factor in afternoon practice. In addition, this seclusion admits of closer application to duties, since the presence of a large crowd of commenters is sure to distract the attention of the candidates...
...Index for 1888-89, which will be put on sale at noon today, is in many ways an improvement over the publication of last year. It is published in simple cloth instead of paper as heretofore, which change will render the book much more desirable. It appears with records of old crews and nines that have not been published in any former Index, and it has a very fair picture of the Mott Haven team which won the cup for Harvard last May. The book of this year has twenty-five pages more than that of last year, this additional...
...Magee, '89, was the last of the principal disputants. Protection, said he, is the rock on which the republicans stand. The best means of securing revenue is by indirect taxation. An equitable reduction in the tariff is what the Republicans contend for. Free wool, with a tax on cloth, would only put money into the pockets of the manufacturers, who would continue to keep up prices. Wages and profit are both higher here than in England, but under free trade both would fall...
...From interest. (a) No equivalent can be found for American wool.- John L. Hayes, "Relations of the Worsted Cloth Manufacturers to American Sheep Industry," p. 6. (b) Many mills must shut down if this bill is enacted.- Bulletin N. A. W. M., Vol. XVIII...
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