Word: ets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present system of transacting business in congress is unsatisfactory and would be greatly improved by the proposed exchnage:- Senator Hoar in North American Review, Feb. 1879, Gamaliel Bradford, The Practical Working of our Government, pp. 4-8; Nation, vol., 46 p. 279 et...
...Direct responsibility for measures is essential and would be obtained:- Story on the Constitution, S 869 et seq; International Review, Aug., 1879, pp. 149-151; Nation...
...need a navy in anticipation of war; (a) war is usually unexpected; North American Review, vol. XCVIII, pp. 462-467; (b) time is needed; (1) to build a navy and to train seamen.- Nation, vol. XLI pp. 503 et. seq. (2) to encourage better methods of naval warfare.- North American Review, Jan., 1889, p. 15, quotation; Fortnightly Review, vol. L. pp. 546, et seq.; Forum...
...articles are of especial interest, "Le Buddhisme en Occident" by Em. Burnouf, and De I'Etude et de I'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes by Panl Berry. The latter article is one of especial interest to members of such a university as Harvard, in which so much attention is paid to modern languages. The number as a whole is very bright and contains several interesting stories as well as two or three bright bits of verse...
...Bounties are wasteful. (a) They cause a dead loss to national wealth; (b) they require increased government machinery to distribute them; (c) they encourage producers to disregard the laws of supply and demand.- Nation, Jan. 17, 1889; Fort. Rev., Vol. 52, pp. 638 et...