Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concentrated on intercollegiate sports, and it is safe to say that far more good than harm is the result. Until some better outlet is suggested, the best thing the colleges can do is not to abolish the system, but to try to eradicate the evils which we know to exist...
...impressions of Harvard. Rev. Phillips Brooks then addressed the meeting at length. He dwelt upon the difficulty which a university offers of forming large circles of acquaintances; men tend to collect into small groups and there by to live narrow lives destroying the great democratic spirit which ought to exist. It keeps what is good in men where its influence cannot be felt and makes it impossible to approach what is bad. He urged men not to allow themselves to get bound by any narrow set of laws, but to try to make their lives felt in as wide...
...gaining complete commercial reciprocity between this country and South America we would greatly enlarge our trade and remove all the barriers which now exist. (a) S. A. produces many asricultural articles such as raw material which this country greatly needs. (b) The United States produces many manufactured articles which the South American states would be glad to have-Reports from the the Consuls...
...Garrison began by reviewing the early history of tariff legislation when its purpose was to foster an industry not strong enough to exist of itself, and when no one denied that a tariff was a tax. He considered briefly the causes which led to the revenue tariff of 1847, and described the wonderful prosperity which the country enjoyed in the decade which followed. He declared that notwithstanding the incubus of the industrial condition of the south the country has never had greater material properity than during the year between...
...second epoch groups itself about 1200. The European nations were then settled in almost the same bounds as today; The Catholic religion was established, and the feudal system evolved order out of the social chaos. Under the union of the papacy and the empire men as men did not exist; there was no such thing as individual liberty; a man existed only as a member of a body. And yet it was through these institutions that the nations breathed their sincerest faith and highest aspirations. The great epic of this period is the Nioelungen Leid, and it is as characteristic...