Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last eleven years Yale has graduated nine hundred and sixteen free traders and but thirty protectionists. The majority of its alumni are protectionists, however, if President White, of Cornell, speaks truly, when he says that four years in business would convert three-fourths of the free trade college graduates to protection...
Prof. Thompson's lectures on Protection are to be followed by four lectures on Free Trade by Mr. Edwin L. Godkin...
...Many free trade countries levy duties for revenue only. There is much natural protection, articles of bulk cannot be imported on account of the freightage. Farmers derive great benefit from protection by a market being furnished for their produce. They, not the manufacturers, first demand a tariff. We have manufactures because we have a tariff...
...country, have generously sent two copies of the bust of the poet, one to Harvard College and the other to the Maine Historical Society of Portland, the city where he was born. These replicas left Liverpool about the middle of December on the Canard line, which will forward them free of expense, and ought soon to be here. Meanwhile a letter from the Prince of Wales has been received by the president, announcing the gift. It is as follows...
...will perhaps be interesting to compare with these American schools the instruction offered at the Free School of Political Science in Paris. The course is for two years, extending from November to June. Instruction is divided into four sections, Administrative, Diplomatic, Economic and Financial, and the General Section. The latter department would doubtless be of most value to the American student, as the aim of the others is more confined, being chiefly directed to fit for the civic and diplomatic service of France. In this section, devoted to Public Law and History, the instruction includes: Comparative Civil Legislation, (by Prof...