Word: fall
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half-past six. There are two hours of study in the evening. Taps sounds at ten o'clock. The drills are varied and embrace every sort of practical exercise that a naval officer requires in the various duties he is called upon to perform. In the spring and fall, infantry, artillery, naval tactics, gunnery and seamanship drills are the programme. During the winter the classes drill separately, having fencing, boxing, dancing, gymnastics, signals work in the rigging and sail lofts, rifle and pistol practice, steam, and work in the machine shops. The drill squads are all under the supervision...
...other hand, appeal to the tender side of their hearers' nature, and tell pitiful tales of the wretched condition of the Irish peasantry, and the natives of India,-all caused, as they say, by the introduction of free trade. When they turn their attention to this country, both fall into the same error. The protectionists calmly lay the whole prosperity of the country since the late war to the existence of a high tariff, while many free traders fall into a similar error by asserting that the prosperity of the country before that period was caused by the free trade...
...appointments for commencement at Brown University have been announced. They are as follows: Oration and valedictory address, Walter Goodnow Everett, Southampton, Vt.; Latin salutatory, Frank Leslie Day, Keene, N. H.; classical oration, Ferdinand Courtney French, Providence, R. L.; philosophical oration, Andrew McCorrie Warren, Fall River, Mass...
...officers of the Inter-Collegiate Tennis Association met in New Haven early this week. The constitution was improved principally in the wording, and will be submitted to the association next fall. The votes of the different members on the place for the tournament to be held next fall were opened, and it was found that the new grounds of the New Haven club had been selected, in preference to those of Harvard by a vote...
...audience which assembled last evening in Sever 11 to hear Mr. E. L. Godkin's first lecture on Free Trade was suggestive only of the audiences which listened last fall to Prof. Thompson's lectures on Protection. The subject of Mr. Godkin's first lecture was "Reason why free trade has not made greater advances." In the United States, Russia and Germany, protection never flourished more than in the last twenty-five years. Americans are substantially protectionists to-day. Protection has grown. England's free trade policy was due to a search for cheaper food and a zealous attack against...