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...Rotch Scholarship for students in Architecture. This scholarship, founded in 1883 by the children of Benjamin S. Rotch, provides an annual fund of $1,000 for two years for the competitor who posses the best examination before the Boston Society of Architects. The fund is to be used in foreign travel and study. The examination are conducted under the direction of the Boston Society of Architects, and are held at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The examination in April 5th is a preliminary test. A problem in design will be given to those trying the examination, and they will...
...diminished our exports to Chili by four-fifths, and that a number of laborers, who had formerly made the exported articles, were thrown out of employment. Owing to the excellence of our soil and machinery, 80 percent, of our products are out of the reach of foreign competition, and with free raw materials probably 90 per cent. would be in the same situation. When England became a free trade country, the same argument that is now brought forward was advanced, namely, that the country would be flooded with the products of the cheaper labor of the continent, and that...
...This treaty grants us nothing which we do not already rightfully possess: Wharton's Digest. S 304, 306; U. S. Foreign Relations...
...gives up its rights and abandons its claims. (a) We have already refused more favorable offers.- (b) We yield in the head-lands controversy.- (c) Nothing is said of indemnity for outrages: Wharton's Digest, S 305, 305a; Boston Advertiser, Feb. 23, 1888; U. S. Foreign Relations...
...Plenty of exercise in the open air in agreeable company will prevent the bilious headache and mental depression which interfere so often with the usefulness of professional men. Above all, intervals of complete rest, combined with change of occupation, such as the cultivation of flowers, or similar pursuits entirely foreign to the regular employment, will enable a man to accomplish far more than would otherwise be possible. In the words of the famous Dr. Bird, who recently fell a victim to over work, "Take six weeks' holiday every year. It may delay your success, but it will save your life...