Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flavors superadded to a pig who came to his death by flagellation (per extremam flagellationem) was greater than that obtained by any other means, does this justify slaughtering him in this fashion?" Three speakers supported and four opposed the question, which was decided in the negative. The question "Ought foreign authors to be excluded from the privilege of securing copyright in this country?" was once discussed, and the vote was carried in the negative. Debate on the question "Was the Hartford Convention a measure deserving the reprobation of posterity," continued through two meetings, the vote standing affirmative, 13; negative...
...college in the United States has a more liberal tendency regarding religion than our own. Harvard does less at the present day to thrust any particular belief on the students than any foreign or indigenous institution of its kind. But the unfortunate reputation acquired in some past decade still clings vigorously in the minds of many, minds that must be either narrow or willfully ignorant. The services in the college chapel are of so unsec tarian a nature that any regular attender would soon see how absurd is the idea that brands Harvard as a "Unitarian college." A true view...
...Cohn will deliver what promises to be a very interesting lecture in Sever 11, at 3 P. M. to-day. His subject is "Thinking in a Foreign Language...
...founders of the republic, although they rid themselves of many of the encumbrances under which Europe was burdened for ages, doing away with state religion, individual privilege and royalty, still clung to one mediaeval idea, namely the interference of government in private business. This idea is foreign to the theory of our government of non-interference with private affairs. The history of the American colonies before the Revolution affords the most striking instance known to history of great industrial activity arising from natural advantages, and the intelligence and skill of the population. No tariff protected the colonies, yet there...
...meddle herein is a very delicate proceeding, for it is in practice an interference of government with purely private affairs. Legislators are poor enough managers of their own affairs, and much poorer of the affairs of others. It must next be remembered that for political purposes the profitableness of foreign trade is conceded by a tariff; inasmuch as when a high tariff exists it implies a strong effective demand for foreign goods. The minority of the people at least wants a foreign trade, so that it is wrong to state absolutely that Americans are protectionists. This leads to a question...