Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class statistics of Yale for eleven recent years show 945 free-traders and 341 protectionists...
Document No. 3 of the N. Y. Association for the Protection of American Industry has been distributed throughout the college. Where are the free trade societies...
Says a protectionist journal: "The class statistics of Yale for eleven recent years show 945 free traders and 341 protectionists. When these young men have been out of college four years the figures will be reversed if they mingle with practical men and engage in practical pursuits...
...that respectable men would accomplish nothing beyond soiling their hands by interfering. This state of things is a deplorable one. Politics and the science of government should occupy a prominent place in the teachings of a university. Professors are not expected to inculcate ideas peculiar to any party, but free discussions of general political subjects are always within their province. Such discussions by college men through the columns of the public press would be of much more benefit to the community than the political dogmas of professional politicians with which our papers are at present filled...
...number of courses and professors. Owing to financial reasons, our faculty entertained the hope that Prof. Dunbar, on his return next year, would be able to conduct the three course that are now given. President Eliot never shared this hope, and realized that although Prof. Dunbar would be free from all duties connected with the deanship, still he would not be able to give the necessary time to such extended instruction, and to do justice to such important studies. Therefore it can be positively stated that the three regular courses in Political Economy, so popular this year, will be given...