Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This little book is already known to our readers as the successful essay for the Toppan prize in Political Economy. Owing to the great interest in political topics at the present time, the book will undoubtedly meet with a deserved success. Here, in small compass of sixty-nine pages, is presented an excellent account of an important subject. Mr. Taussig in his introductory chapter states the argument for protection to young industries in a few pages. "The argument is, in brief, that it may be advantageous to encourage by legislation a branch of industry which might be profitably carried...
...self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve out recreation and enjoyment as the alternative and the reward of our professional toil. Now, the entire tone and character of this life outside the profession are profoundly dependent on the compass of our early studies. He that leaves the school for the shop at thirteen is on one platform. He that spends the years from thirteen to twenty in acquiring general knowledge is on a totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work...
...this spring seems to be on the increase, and numerous claims have been made on the ground available for courts, so that our fields are now closely scored. The distribution of these courts is remarkable. They lie at every angle with each other and at all points of the compass. Occupancy of the ground is the whole law, and possession is ill-defined. It is to be hoped that the Tennis Association will revive sufficiently to take some action in regard to the occupancy of courts and the terms of possession. Some equitable rules should be drawn up to govern...
...Scotch universities afford efficient class teaching; the German universities give the fullest instruction by professional lectures; the English universities excel in social advantages and in opportunities for forming valuable friendships. The excessive development of their examination system has certainly injured their teaching; but it has been improving in compass as well as in earnestness, and seems likely to improve still further...
...were we doing in Chelsea? We were on a "geological survey" to study the formations of the country around. Unfortunately, we only had a self-appointed '80 man for an instructor, but being an '80 man he was a perfect stranger there, so he was obliged to buy a compass, in order to "know where he was when he was lost." We started on Hanfield Avenue, turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were...