Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...national conference of free-traders at Detroit yesterday adopted a plan of organization and issued an address to the people, setting forth the free trade principles...
...University of Michigan advocates free trade enthusiastically; it is advocated by both faculty and students. At Williams the majority of the faculty are protectionists, but Prof. Perry, the teacher of political economy, is a very decided free trader, as is also his son, an instructor there. The senior class number twenty-seven in favor of his doctrine, and thirteen opposed to it. Two-thirds of the class of '80 were protectionists; '81 showed a majority of free traders, also '82 and '84. Harvard and Yale teach the free trade theory, while Princeton is just now in an unsettled state...
...that this cuts off any increase in the filling of the three other parts. If you wish more basses, furnish more tenors; to do so you must make a position on the Glee Club desirable for all men by showing more interest than that contained in listening to a free concert once a week and growling if it isn't given...
...reference to the course in general, like the examination for entrance into the freshman class in college; that, unless under special circumstances, no young woman should be admitted to such entrance examination before she has attained the age of eighteen years; that every student so admitted should be entirely free as to where and how to pursue her studies, whether in some school, private or public, or at home, or under the auspices and direction of any association interested in her welfare and advancement and providing her with the means of education; that examinations should be held as often...
...weeks ago, it will be remembered, Prof. Sumner of Yale made some remarks in a lecture on free trade which were at once taken up as a challenge by advocates of protection. The superintendent of the thread mills at Willimantic, Conn., embraced the opportunity to invite a number of Yale students to inspect the mills. Free transportation and a free lunch induced upwards of two hundred and fifty students to accept the invitation. The excursion was a grand success. The trip was a pleasant one, and the Yale students were much pleased with what they saw. The mills alone were...