Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Free Trade.-Mr. Edwin L. Godkin, Sever...
...Godkin, the lecturer on Free Trade is editor in chief of the New York Post...
...ever occur to the Overseers what an anomalous appearance this college, in its religious aspect, presents to the world? Under the present regulations the Harvard student is required on week-days to attend a place of Christian worship. Yet on Sunday, the Christian holy-day, he is free to pay to spiritual matters what little attention he may please. The reason underlying this peculiar state of affairs would be difficult to ascertain. Week day religion is not the general custom Most men keep their piety for exclusive use on the first of the week. Nor is week-day religion sanctioned...
...Although this little book is but a sketch of the principal measeres of protection, it is perhaps on that account more valuable. There remains nothing to be said on the theory of free trade; there remains everything to be done in arousing the American people. Tracts like this will be read by many who would not open a bulky volume of the same title, and they will find that what they regarded as the most confused and perplexing of subjects is not only comprehensible but also interesting. The style of the author is temperate throughout, and, indeed, he seems disposed...
Faculty and students are inevitably drawn closer together, and a free interchange of views is encouraged, which does much towards removing misunderstandings and producing that spirit of harmony and confidence so necessary for the highest degree of success...